| Name | CVE-2019-3836 |
| Description | It was discovered in gnutls before version 3.6.7 upstream that there is an uninitialized pointer access in gnutls versions 3.6.3 or later which can be triggered by certain post-handshake messages. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
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.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| gnutls28 | source | experimental | 3.6.7-1 | | | |
| gnutls28 | source | jessie | (not affected) | | | |
| gnutls28 | source | stretch | (not affected) | | | |
| gnutls28 | source | (unstable) | 3.6.7-2 | | | |
Notes
[stretch] - gnutls28 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later in 3.6.4)
[jessie] - gnutls28 <not-affected> (vulnerable code was introduced later)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1678411
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/issues/704
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/96e07075e8f105b13e76b11e493d5aa2dd937226
https://www.gnutls.org/security-new.html#GNUTLS-SA-2019-03-27
Upstream versions affected are 3.6.4 and later before 3.6.7