CVE-2009-1415 Memory corruption in n/a
Remote attackers can crash applications using GnuTLS by sending malformed DSA keys, causing a denial of service via memory corruption.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2009-1415?
CVE-2009-1415 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Gnu Gnutls, published on 30 Apr 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
lib/pk-libgcrypt.c in libgnutls in GnuTLS before 2.6.6 does not properly handle invalid DSA signatures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed DSA key that triggers a (1) free of an uninitialized pointer or (2) double free.
Weakness: CWE-824
Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-1415?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Gnu Gnutls.
How do I fix CVE-2009-1415?
No fix has been published for CVE-2009-1415 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2009-1415 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2009-1415 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Gnu Gnutls
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2vg6-3mr6-w5mp.