CVE - CVE-2009-1415

CVE-ID
CVE-2009-1415	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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
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BID:34783 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34783 CONFIRM:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/3488 GENTOO:GLSA-200905-04 URL:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200905-04.xml MANDRIVA:MDVSA-2009:116 URL:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:116 MLIST:[gnutls-devel] 20090423 Re: some crashes on using DSA keys URL:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/3502 MLIST:[gnutls-devel] 20090430 Double free and free of invalid pointer on certain errors [GNUTLS-SA-2009-1] [CVE-2009-1415] URL:http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/3515 SECTRACK:1022157 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022157 SECUNIA:34842 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/34842 SECUNIA:35211 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/35211 VUPEN:ADV-2009-1218 URL:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1218 XF:gnutls-dsa-code-execution(50257) URL:https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50257 XF:gnutls-dsa-dos(50260) URL:https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50260 XF:gnutls-libgnutls-dos(50445) URL:https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50445
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20090424	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20090424)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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