CVE-2014-3469

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2014-3469 · Published 05/06/2014 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2014-3469 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting gnutls (gnu), libtasn1 (gnu), virtualization (redhat).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.8%, higher than 90.1% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 3.5.7, 3.6 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
gnutls gnu	`< 3.5.7`	`3.5.7`
libtasn1 gnu	`< 3.6`	`3.6`
virtualization redhat	`= 6.0`	No fix yet

Description

The (1) asn1_read_value_type and (2) asn1_read_value functions in GNU Libtasn1 before 3.6 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a NULL value in an ivalue argument.

References

advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0247.html · Third Party Advisory
linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0594.html · Third Party Advisory
linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0596.html · Third Party Advisory
lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-libtasn1/2014-05/msg00006.html · Patch
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-06/msg00002.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-06/msg00015.html · Mailing List
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0594.html · Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0596.html · Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0687.html · Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0815.html · Third Party Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/58591 · Third Party Advisory

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