A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in GnuTLS. As Nettle's hash update functions internally call memcpy, providing zero-length input may cause undefined behavior. This flaw leads to a denial of service after authentication in rare circumstances.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 2
- https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/commit/3db352734472d851318944db13be73da61300568 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/commit/3db352734472d851318944db13be73da61300568 Patch, Third Party Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 6.5 · gnu, redhat, netappNVD modified 2026-10-14 11:16
Affected (CPE criteria) 5
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:netapp:active_iq_unified_manager:-:*:*:*:*:vmware_vsphere:*:*cpe:2.3:a:netapp:solidfire_\&_hci_management_node:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:netapp:hci_bootstrap_os:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 13
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4209 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2044156 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/commit/3db352734472d851318944db13be73da61300568 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1306 Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/1503 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220915-0005/ Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4209 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2044156 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/commit/3db352734472d851318944db13be73da61300568 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1306 Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/1503 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220915-0005/ Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html