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CVE-2008-2377

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2008-08-21 gnutls -- "gnutls_handshake()" Denial of Service

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2008-2377
Phase Assigned(20080521)

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the _gnutls_handshake_hash_buffers_clear function in lib/gnutls_handshake.c in libgnutls in GnuTLS 2.3.5 through 2.4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via TLS transmission of data that is improperly used when the peer calls gnutls_handshake within a normal session, leading to attempted access to a deallocated libgcrypt handle.

References

Source Reference
MLIST [gnutls-devel] 20080630 Details on the gnutls_handshake local crash problem [GNUTLS-SA-2008-2]
MLIST [gnutls-devel] 20080630 GnuTLS 2.4.1
CONFIRM http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/security.html
CONFIRM https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2650
BID 30713
VUPEN ADV-2008-2398
SECUNIA 31505
XF gnutls-gnutlshandshake-code-execution(44486)