CVE-2004-2531

Published Dec 31, 2004

Last updated 8 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 7.8
Impact score: 6.9
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "4FBB8F2C-498D-4D31-A7D7-9991BABEA7A6"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References