CVE-2020-24659 (GCVE-0-2020-24659)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-09-04 14:03 – Updated: 2024-08-04 15:19
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
An issue was discovered in GnuTLS before 3.6.15. A server can trigger a NULL pointer dereference in a TLS 1.3 client if a no_renegotiation alert is sent with unexpected timing, and then an invalid second handshake occurs. The crash happens in the application's error handling path, where the gnutls_deinit function is called after detecting a handshake failure.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1071 | x_refsource_MISC |
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| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202009-01 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
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| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/4491-1/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
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