CVE-2026-42009
HighCVSS 7.5Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Elevated risk69th percentile - higher than 69% of all known CVEs
Summary
A flaw was found in GnuTLS in the DTLS packet reordering logic. The comparator function does not correctly handle packets with duplicate sequence numbers, leading to unstable ordering or undefined behavior, resulting in a denial of service.
Risk Assessment
A remote attacker can cause a denial of service in applications using GnuTLS with DTLS, disrupting time-sensitive communications.
Recommendation
Update the GnuTLS library to a version that fixes the handling of duplicate DTLS sequence numbers.
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- CVE-2017-7869High
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- CVE-2017-5335High
The stream reading functions in lib/opencdk/read-packet.c in GnuTLS before 3.3.26 and 3.5.x before 3.5.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-memory error and crash) via a crafted OpenPGP certificate.
- CVE-2016-7444High
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- CVE-2024-28834Medium
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- CVE-2017-5337Critical
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- CVE-2017-5336Critical
A stack-based buffer overflow in the cdk_pk_get_keyid function in lib/opencdk/pubkey.c in GnuTLS before 3.3.26 and 3.5.x before 3.5.8 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted OpenPGP certificate.
- CVE-2017-5334Critical
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Original NVD description (English source)
A flaw was found in gnutls. A remote attacker could exploit an issue in the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) packet reordering logic. The comparator function, responsible for ordering DTLS packets by sequence numbers, did not correctly handle packets with duplicate sequence numbers. This could lead to unstable packet ordering or undefined behavior, resulting in a denial of service.