CVE-2017-7869: GNU Gnutls

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

GnuTLS before 2017-02-20 has an out-of-bounds write caused by an integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow related to the cdk_pkt_read function in opencdk/read-packet.c. This issue (which is a subset of the vendor's GNUTLS-SA-2017-3 report) is fixed in 3.5.10.

Affected products

• GNU Gnutls: up to and including 3.5.9

Published 2017-04-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.