CVE-2004-2531

HIGH 7.8CVE-2004-2531 · Published 31/12/2004 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2004-2531 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting gnutls (gnu).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.7%, higher than 77.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
gnutls gnu	`= 1.0.16`	No fix yet

Description

X.509 Certificate Signature Verification in Gnu transport layer security library (GnuTLS) 1.0.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via certificates containing long chains and signed with large RSA keys.

References

lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-dev/2004-August/000703.html
secunia.com/advisories/12156 · Patch
securitytracker.com/id · Patch
hornik.sk/SA/SA-20040802.txt · Patch
osvdb.org/8278 · Patch
securityfocus.com/bid/10839 · Patch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16858

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

gnutls

gnu

= 1.0.16

No fix yet

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