CVE-2025-32990
8.2
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.29%
Description
A heap-buffer-overflow (off-by-one) flaw was found in the GnuTLS software in the template parsing logic within the certtool utility. When it reads certain settings from a template file, it allows an attacker to cause an out-of-bounds (OOB) NULL pointer write, resulting in memory corruption and a denial-of-service (DoS) that could potentially crash the system.
How to fix CVE-2025-32990
To remediate CVE-2025-32990, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 3.8.12-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 3.7.1-5+deb11u8 or later
Is CVE-2025-32990 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.3%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 3.8.12-r0
- from 0, < 3.7.1-5+deb11u8
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H |