CVE-2014-8564: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The _gnutls_ecc_ansi_x963_export function in gnutls_ecc.c in GnuTLS 3.x before 3.1.28, 3.2.x before 3.2.20, and 3.3.x before 3.3.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted (1) Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificate or (2) certificate signing requests (CSR), related to generating key IDs.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.10 only
• GNU Gnutls: version 3.0 only; version 3.0.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; …
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 12.3 only; version 13.1 only; version 13.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2014-11-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.