CVE-2004-2531

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

X.509 Certificate Signature Verification in Gnu transport layer security library (GnuTLS) 1.0.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via certificates containing long chains and signed with large RSA keys.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 7.8/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-dev/2004-August/000703.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/12156Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1010838Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.hornik.sk/SA/SA-20040802.txtPatch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/8278Patch
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10839Patch
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16858
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-dev/2004-August/000703.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/12156Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1010838Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.hornik.sk/SA/SA-20040802.txtPatch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/8278Patch
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10839Patch
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16858

Timeline

Published: Dec 31, 2004
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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