CVE-2008-1950: GNU Gnutls

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer signedness error in the _gnutls_ciphertext2compressed function in lib/gnutls_cipher.c in libgnutls in GnuTLS before 2.2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and crash) via a certain integer value in the Random field in an encrypted Client Hello message within a TLS record with an invalid Record Length, which leads to an invalid cipher padding length, aka GNUTLS-SA-2008-1-3.

Affected products

• GNU Gnutls: version 1.0.18 only; version 1.0.19 only; version 1.0.20 only; version 1.0.21 only; version 1.0.22 only; version 1.0.23 only; …

Published 2008-05-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.