| Name | CVE-2014-1959 |
| Description | lib/x509/verify.c in GnuTLS before 3.1.21 and 3.2.x before 3.2.11 treats version 1 X.509 certificates as intermediate CAs, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions by leveraging a X.509 V1 certificate from a trusted CA to issue new certificates. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-2866-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| gnutls28 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 3.3.30-0+deb8u2 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 3.5.8-5+deb9u6 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 3.5.8-5+deb9u7 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 3.6.7-4+deb10u12 | fixed |
| bullseye | 3.7.1-5+deb11u5 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 3.7.1-5+deb11u6 | fixed |
| bookworm | 3.7.9-2+deb12u3 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 3.8.8-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[squeeze] - gnutls26 <not-affected> (does not allow X.509 v1 certificates by default)
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/b1abfe3d18
introduced by https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/60ee8a0eb9975d123002b1cffbefd60a8cd5fae6