CVE-2006-7239 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in GnuTLS versions prior to 1.4.2. A remote attacker can crash the application by presenting a crafted X.509 certificate that specifies an unsupported hash algorithm, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity), indicating it can be exploited over a network with low complexity to cause a partial denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are minimal.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0.16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0.17CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0.18CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0.19CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:1.0.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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