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ubuntu-cve-2015-6251

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2015-08-24 00:00

Modified

2026-04-22 07:37

Summary

Details

Double free vulnerability in GnuTLS before 3.3.17 and 3.4.x before 3.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long DistinguishedName (DN) entry in a certificate.

Severity

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-6251	REPORT
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/10/1	REPORT
	http://www.gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2015-3	REPORT
	https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2727-1	ADVISORY
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-6251	REPORT

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CVE-2015-6251 (GCVE-0-2015-6251)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-08-24 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:15

Summary

Double free vulnerability in GnuTLS before 3.3.17 and 3.4.x before 3.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long DistinguishedName (DN) entry in a certificate.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat

References

10 references

URL	Tags
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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-0…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033226	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2015-3	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/10/1	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76267	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/272854367…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/17/6	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3334	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN

Date Public

2015-08-10 00:00

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2015-6251 (GCVE-0-2015-6251)

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