CVE-2019-3829

Publication date 27 March 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Description

A vulnerability was found in gnutls versions from 3.5.8 before 3.6.7. A memory corruption (double free) vulnerability in the certificate verification API. Any client or server application that verifies X.509 certificates with GnuTLS 3.5.8 or later is affected.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
gnutls26 19.04 disco Not in release
18.10 cosmic Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected
gnutls28 19.04 disco
Fixed 3.6.5-2ubuntu1.1
18.10 cosmic
Fixed 3.6.4-2ubuntu1.2
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 3.5.18-1ubuntu1.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

3.5.8 or later

Patch details

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Package Patch details
gnutls28

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

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