SB2016090806 - Fedora 24 update for gnutls
Published: September 8, 2016 Updated: April 24, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2016090806
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Security restrictions bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-7444)
The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions on the target system.The weakness exists due to insufficient validation of the serial length of an OCSP response by the gnutls_ocsp_resp_check_crt function in the lib/x509/ocsp.c code. A remote attacker can bypass certificate validation and conduct further attacks.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.