CVE-2006-4790

security flaw

Published Sep 14, 2006 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 2.6% KEV · Not listed
Description
verify.c in GnuTLS before 1.4.4, when using an RSA key with exponent 3, does not properly handle excess data in the digestAlgorithm.parameters field when generating a hash, which allows remote attackers to forge a PKCS #1 v1.5 signature that is signed by that RSA key and prevents GnuTLS from correctly verifying X.509 and other certificates that use PKCS, a variant of CVE-2006-4339.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1182-1 New gnutls11 packages fix RSA signature forgery cryptographic weakness
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-4777 verify.c in GnuTLS before 1.4.4, when using an RSA key with exponent 3, does not properly handle excess data in the digestAlgorithm.parameters field when generating a hash, which allows remote attackers to forge a PKCS #1 v1.5 signature that is signed by that RSA key and prevents GnuTLS from correctly verifying X.509 and other certificates that use PKCS, a variant of CVE-2006-4339.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-348-1 GnuTLS vulnerability
References
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http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-dev/2006-September/001205.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-dev/2006-September/001212.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21937 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21942 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21973 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22049 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22080 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22084 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22097 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22226 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22992 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/25762 cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200609-15.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016844 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102648-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102970-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-250.htm cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1182 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/security.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:166 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_23_sr.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_10_ibmjava.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0680.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20027 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-348-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3635 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3899 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2289 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28953 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-4790 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9937 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-4790 cve-icon
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 7:23 PM
Reserved
Sep 13, 2006, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Sep 14, 2006, 7:07 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:29 PM
Severity
Important
Public date
Sep 8, 2006, 12:00 AM