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CVE-2013-4487 json

Off-by-one error in the dane_raw_tlsa in the DANE library (libdane) in GnuTLS 3.1.x before 3.1.16 and 3.2.x before 3.2.6 allows remote serv…

published 12y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-4352

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.9%
EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Off-by-one error in the dane_raw_tlsa in the DANE library (libdane) in GnuTLS 3.1.x before 3.1.16 and 3.2.x before 3.2.6 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a response with more than four DANE entries. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-4466.

Patch / fix

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2013-4487 updated cvss 6.8

gnutls: dane_query_tlsa() CVE-2013-4466 fix off-by-one

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 gnutls Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 gnutls, gnutls-guile, gnutls-utils, mingw32-gnutls Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 gnutls, gnutls-c++, gnutls-dane, gnutls-utils
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.92% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • gitorious.org https://gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/0dd5529509e46b11d5c0f3f26f99294e0e5fa6dc referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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