HIGH 7.5 Microsoft

CVE-2020-24659

An issue was discovered in GnuTLS before 3.6.15. A server can trigger a NULL pointer dereference in a TLS 1.3 client if a no_renegotiation alert is sent with unexpected timing and then an invalid second handshake occurs. The crash happens in the application's error handling path where the gnutls_deinit function is called after detecting a handshake failure.

Microsoft Security Update 2020-Sep: An issue was discovered in GnuTLS before 3.6.15. A server can trigger a NULL pointer dereference in a TLS 1.3 client if a no_renegotiation alert is sent with unexpected timing and then an invalid second handshake occurs. The crash happens in the application's error handling path where the gnutls_deinit function is called after detecting a handshake failure.

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Published: 2020-09-08 · Source: Microsoft · Feed updated: 2026-08-21
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5 was published on 2020-09-08 via Microsoft. Affected: cm1 gnutls 3.6.14-3 on CBL Mariner 1.0, cbl2 gnutls 3.6.14-5 on CBL Mariner 2.0.
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