High
Security advisory
GnuTLS version 3.5.12 and earlier is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference while decoding a status response TLS extension with valid contents. This could lead to a crash of the GnuTLS server application.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-7507
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:07 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
GnuTLS version 3.5.12 and earlier is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference while decoding a status response TLS extension with valid contents. This could lead to a crash of the GnuTLS server application.
osv:CVE-2017-7507
Complete source record
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"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2292",
"https://www.gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2017-4"
],
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},
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{
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 436844,
"published_at": "2017-06-16T19:29:00.19+00:00"
}