CVE-2004-2531 Information

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.

Reference

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