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CVE-2015-6251 (GCVE-0-2015-6251)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-08-24 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:15
VLAI
Summary
Double free vulnerability in GnuTLS before 3.3.17 and 3.4.x before 3.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long DistinguishedName (DN) entry in a certificate.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Date Public
2015-08-10 00:00
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      "aggregate_severity": "Moderate",
      "current_release_date": "2025-11-21T12:15:51+00:00",
      "cve": "CVE-2015-6251",
      "id": "CVE-2015-6251",
      "initial_release_date": "2015-08-10T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:known_affected": "6",
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      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "gnutls: double free flaw in certificate DN decoding (GNUTLS-SA-2015-3)",
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      "version": "3"
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      "current_release_date": "2026-09-01T02:28:02Z",
      "cve": "CVE-2015-6251",
      "id": "CVE-2015-6251",
      "initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T05:15:20Z",
      "product_status:known_affected": "328",
      "product_status:recommended": "680",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2015-6251",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2015-6251.json",
      "version": "35"
    }
  }
}



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