CVE-2019-3829

Se ha descubierto una vulnerabilidad en gnutls, desde la versión 3.5.8 hasta antes de la 3.6.7. Hay una vulnerabilidad de corrupción de memoria (doble liberación o "double free") en la API de verificación de certificados. Cualquier aplicación cliente o servidor que verifica certificados X.509 con GnuTLS en versiones 3.5.8 o posteriores se ha visto afectada.

A double free flaw was found in the way the certificate verification API was implemented for gnutls. An attacker could cause a client or server application compiled against gnutls to crash by parsing a specially-crafted certificate.

Eyal Ronen, Kenneth G. Paterson, and Adi Shamir discovered that GnuTLS was vulnerable to a timing side-channel attack known as the "Lucky Thirteen" issue. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform plaintext-recovery attacks via analysis of timing data. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Tavis Ormandy discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly handled memory when verifying certain X.509 certificates. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause GnuTLS to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.10, and Ubuntu 19.04. Various other issues were also addressed.