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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2005-1431 json

The "record packet parsing" in GnuTLS 1.2 before 1.2.3 and 1.0 before 1.0.25 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, possibly…

published 2005-05-03 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-1434

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.2%
EPSS 2.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The "record packet parsing" in GnuTLS 1.2 before 1.2.3 and 1.0 before 1.0.25 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, possibly related to padding bytes in gnutils_cipher.c.

Patch / fix

  • gnutls RHEL 4 1.0.20-3.2.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:430

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2005-1431 updated

gnutls record packet parsing DoS [GNUTLS-SA-2005-1]

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 gnutls 1.0.20-3.2.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 gnutls 1.0.20-3.2.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 gnutls 1.0.20-3.2.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 gnutls 1.0.20-3.2.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:430

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.