Bug 1677048 (CVE-2019-3829) - CVE-2019-3829 gnutls: use-after-free/double-free in certificate verification
Summary: CVE-2019-3829 gnutls: use-after-free/double-free in certificate verification
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2019-3829
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1693210 1693211 1693285 1693286
Blocks: 1677050
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-02-13 21:01 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2023-09-26 13:23 UTC (History)
19 users (show)

Fixed In Version: gnutls 3.6.7
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A double free flaw was found in the way the certificate verification API was implemented for gnutls. An attacker could cause a client or server application compiled against gnutls to crash by parsing a specially-crafted certificate.
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Last Closed: 2019-04-05 06:42:27 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:3600 0 None None None 2019-11-05 21:17:32 UTC

Description Laura Pardo 2019-02-13 21:01:56 UTC 
A flaw was found in gnutls 3.5.8 or later. A use-after-free in multi-threaded-clients and a double-free vulnerability in single-threaded clients because _gnutls_x509_get_signature does not clear signature->data in the cleanup path.


Upstream bug:
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/issues/694
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2019-02-15 16:58:08 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Tavis Ormandy (Google Project Zero)
Comment 2 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-03-27 11:15:57 UTC 
Created gnutls tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1693210]


Created mingw-gnutls tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1693211]
Comment 4 Laura Pardo 2019-03-27 14:50:02 UTC 
External References:

https://www.gnutls.org/security-new.html#GNUTLS-SA-2019-03-27
Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2019-04-05 06:42:27 UTC 
Upstream patch: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/ad27713bef613e6c4600a0fb83ae48c6d390ff5b
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-05 21:17:30 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2019:3600 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3600
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