CVE-2006-7239 (GCVE-0-2006-7239)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-05-24 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 20:57
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The _gnutls_x509_oid2mac_algorithm function in lib/gnutls_algorithms.c in GnuTLS before 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted X.509 certificate that uses a hash algorithm that is not supported by GnuTLS, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
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