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CVE-2015-3308
Double free vulnerability in lib/x509/x509_ext.c in GnuTLS before 3.3.14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 3.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Double free vulnerability in lib/x509/x509_ext.c in GnuTLS before 3.3.14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted CRL distribution point.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.9% · top 9.6% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- FEDORA-2015-5131 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150416 Re: double-free in gnutls (CRL distribution points parsing) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-2727-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://www.gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2015-4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 74188 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/d6972be33264ecc49a86cd0958209cd7363af1e9 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150415 double-free in gnutls (CRL distribution points parsing) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- GLSA-201506-03 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 1033774 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/053ae65403216acdb0a4e78b25ad66ee9f444f02 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-3354 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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