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CVE-2008-1950

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2008-05-21 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Integer signedness error in the _gnutls_ciphertext2compressed function in lib/gnutls_cipher.c in libgnutls in GnuTLS before 2.2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and crash) via a certain integer value in the Random field in an encrypted Client Hello message within a TLS record with an invalid Record Length, which leads to an invalid cipher padding length, aka GNUTLS-SA-2008-1-3.

Affected Platforms

Gnu Gnutls

Weakness Type

CWE-189

References