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CVE-2008-1948 Detail

Description

The _gnutls_server_name_recv_params function in lib/ext_server_name.c in libgnutls in gnutls-serv in GnuTLS before 2.2.4 does not properly calculate the number of Server Names in a TLS 1.0 Client Hello message during extension handling, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a zero value for the length of Server Names, which leads to a buffer overflow in session resumption data in the pack_security_parameters function, aka GNUTLS-SA-2008-1-1.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnutls.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=bc8102405fda11ea00ca3b42acc4f4bce9d6e97b CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2008-05/msg00051.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2008-05/msg00055.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2008-05/msg00060.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00003.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/30287 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/30302 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/30317 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/30324 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/30330 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/30331 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/30338 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/30355 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/31939 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-20.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3902 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=600646&group_id=21558 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0174 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/advisory-gnutls.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit 
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1581 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/111034 CVE, Inc., Red Hat US Government Resource 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:106 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/20/1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/20/2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/20/3 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0489.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0492.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492282/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492464/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29292 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020057 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-613-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1582/references CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1583/references CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42532 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2552 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10935 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00487.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00590.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00615.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-1948
NVD Published Date:
05/21/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.