CVE-2012-1573

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-03-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

gnutls_cipher.c in libgnutls in GnuTLS before 2.12.17 and 3.x before 3.0.15 does not properly handle data encrypted with a block cipher, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted record, as demonstrated by a crafted GenericBlockCipher structure.

Affected products

[UNKNOWN] gnutls: through 2.12.16; 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.1.0 (+85)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-03/0099.html
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/5910
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/5912
http://blog.mudynamics.com/2012/03/20/gnutls-and-libtasn1-vulns/
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnutls.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=422214868061370aeeb0ac9cd0f021a5c350a57d
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnutls.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b495740f2ff66550ca9395b3fda3ea32c3acb185
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/077071.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/076496.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00001.html
http://osvdb.org/80259
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0429.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0488.html

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