ubuntu · CVE-2016-4456

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-4456 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (gnutls28), 5 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial): not-affected 3, DNE 1, released 1.

Description:

The "GNUTLS_KEYLOGFILE" environment variable in gnutls 3.4.12 allows remote attackers to overwrite and corrupt arbitrary files in the filesystem.