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CVE-2009-1415

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2009-08-17	GnuTLS -- multiple vulnerabilities

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CVE-2009-1415 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2009-1415
Phase	Assigned(20090424)

Description

lib/pk-libgcrypt.c in libgnutls in GnuTLS before 2.6.6 does not properly handle invalid DSA signatures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed DSA key that triggers a (1) free of an uninitialized pointer or (2) double free.

References

Source	Reference
MLIST	[gnutls-devel] 20090423 Re: some crashes on using DSA keys
MLIST	[gnutls-devel] 20090430 Double free and free of invalid pointer on certain errors [GNUTLS-SA-2009-1] [CVE-2009-1415]
CONFIRM	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/3488
GENTOO	GLSA-200905-04
MANDRIVA	MDVSA-2009:116
BID	34783
SECTRACK	1022157
SECUNIA	34842
SECUNIA	35211
VUPEN	ADV-2009-1218
XF	gnutls-dsa-code-execution(50257)
XF	gnutls-dsa-dos(50260)
XF	gnutls-libgnutls-dos(50445)