CVE-2017-7869

GnuTLS before 2017-02-20 has an out-of-bounds write caused by an integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow related to the cdk_pkt_read function in opencdk/read-packet.c. This issue (which is a subset of the vendor's GNUTLS-SA-2017-3 report) is fixed in 3.5.10.

• CWE-787

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97040Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2292
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=420Third Party Advisory
• https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/51464af713d71802e3c6d5ac15f1a95132a354fePatch
• https://www.gnutls.org/security.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97040Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2292
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=420Third Party Advisory
• https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/51464af713d71802e3c6d5ac15f1a95132a354fePatch
• https://www.gnutls.org/security.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory

Published

Apr 14, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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