PT-2017-8493

CVE-2016-4456

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Published

2016-06-08

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Updated

2020-06-16

Description by

CVSS 3.1
7.5
High
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions gnutls version 3.4.12
Description The issue allows remote attackers to overwrite and corrupt arbitrary files in the filesystem due to the "GNUTLS KEYLOGFILE" environment variable.
Recommendations For gnutls version 3.4.12, consider restricting access to the GNUTLS KEYLOGFILE environment variable to prevent remote attackers from overwriting arbitrary files until a patch is available.
Exploitability
Fix
Impacts
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
Related identifiers
CVE-2016-4456
ALT-PU-2016-1590
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