CVE-2024-28835

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Description

A flaw has been discovered in GnuTLS where an application crash can be induced when attempting to verify a specially crafted .pem bundle using the "certtool --verify-chain" command.
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
5.0 (v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Deferred
Source identifier
[email protected]
Published
2024-03-21 06:15:45.113000
Last modified
2026-10-22 22:17:41.483000
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