CVE-2014-3469 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2014-3469?

CVE-2014-3469 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 5 Jun 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The (1) asn1_read_value_type and (2) asn1_read_value functions in GNU Libtasn1 before 3.6 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a NULL value in an ivalue argument.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3469?

It affects 14 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Gnu Gnutls, Gnu Libtasn1, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server and 8 more.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3469?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2014-3469 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3469 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Debian Debian Linux

• CVE-2015-3306 ProFTPD Improper Access Control Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2025-49113 RoundCube Webmail Deserialization of Untrusted Data Exploited Critical 9.9
• CVE-2026-24061 GNU InetUtils Argument Injection Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-39682 Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-9680 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.8

All Debian Debian Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3469, GHSA-52vj-cjhg-wpwv, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3469.