critical
CVE-2017-5334
gnutls: Double-free while decoding crafted X.509 certificates
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.
Severity by source
NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat5.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), Oracle (medium), Ubuntu (medium).
Description
Double free vulnerability in the gnutls_x509_ext_import_proxy function in GnuTLS before 3.3.26 and 3.5.x before 3.5.8 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via crafted policy language information in an X.509 certificate with a Proxy Certificate Information extension.
Affected packages and fixed versions
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| debian 11 | gnutls28 | 3.5.8-1 |
| debian 12 | gnutls28 | 3.5.8-1 |
| debian 13 | gnutls28 | 3.5.8-1 |
| debian 14 | gnutls28 | 3.5.8-1 |
| debian 8 | gnutls28 | 3.3.8-6+deb8u5 |
| echo | gnutls28 | 3.5.8-1 |
| Oracle Linux 7 | gnutls, gnutls-c++, gnutls-dane and 2 more | 3.3.26-9.el7 |
| root.io debian 12 | rootio-gnutls28 | 3.5.8-1 |
| root.io debian 13 | rootio-gnutls28 | 3.5.8-1 |
| ubuntu 16.04 | gnutls28 | 3.4.10-4ubuntu1.2 |
| ubuntu 16.04-ESM | gnutls28 | 3.4.10-4ubuntu1.2 |
| ubuntu 16.10 | gnutls28 | 3.5.3-5ubuntu1.1 |
Show all 22 entries from 18 sources
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| debian 11 | gnutls28 | 3.5.8-1 |
| debian 12 | gnutls28 | 3.5.8-1 |
| debian 13 | gnutls28 | 3.5.8-1 |
| debian 14 | gnutls28 | 3.5.8-1 |
| debian 8 | gnutls28 | 3.3.8-6+deb8u5 |
| echo | gnutls28 | 3.5.8-1 |
| Oracle Linux 7 | gnutls | 3.3.26-9.el7 |
| Oracle Linux 7 | gnutls-c++ | 3.3.26-9.el7 |
| Oracle Linux 7 | gnutls-dane | 3.3.26-9.el7 |
| Oracle Linux 7 | gnutls-devel | 3.3.26-9.el7 |
| Oracle Linux 7 | gnutls-utils | 3.3.26-9.el7 |
| root.io debian 12 | rootio-gnutls28 | 3.5.8-1 |
| root.io debian 13 | rootio-gnutls28 | 3.5.8-1 |
| ubuntu 16.04 | gnutls28 | 3.4.10-4ubuntu1.2 |
| ubuntu 16.04-ESM | gnutls28 | 3.4.10-4ubuntu1.2 |
| ubuntu 16.10 | gnutls28 | 3.5.3-5ubuntu1.1 |
| ubuntu 17.04 | gnutls28 | 3.5.6-4ubuntu3 |
| ubuntu 17.10 | gnutls28 | 3.5.6-4ubuntu3 |
| ubuntu 18.04 | gnutls28 | 3.5.6-4ubuntu3 |
| ubuntu 18.04-ESM | gnutls28 | 3.5.6-4ubuntu3 |
| ubuntu 18.10 | gnutls28 | 3.5.6-4ubuntu3 |
| ubuntu 19.04 | gnutls28 | 3.5.6-4ubuntu3 |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2017-02/msg00005.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/51
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/10/7
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/11/4
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95370
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037576
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2292
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5334
All 16 references
- https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/c5aaa488a3d6df712dc8dff23a049133cab5ec1b
- https://gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2017-1
- https://linux.oracle.com/cve/CVE-2017-5334.html
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2017-2292.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5334
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-04
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3183-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5334