CVE-2013-2116

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-07-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The _gnutls_ciphertext2compressed function in lib/gnutls_cipher.c in GnuTLS 2.12.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and crash) via a crafted padding length. NOTE: this might be due to an incorrect fix for CVE-2013-0169.

Affected products

[UNKNOWN] gnutls: 2.12.23

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00019.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00003.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0883.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/53911
http://secunia.com/advisories/57260
http://secunia.com/advisories/57274
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/6753
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/6754
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2697
http://www.gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2013-2
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:171

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