An issue was discovered in GnuTLS before 3.6.15. A server can trigger a NULL pointer dereference in a TLS 1.3 client if a no_renegotiation alert is sent with unexpected timing, and then an invalid second handshake occurs. The crash happens in the application's error handling path, where the gnutls_deinit function is called after detecting a handshake failure.
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"sources": [
{
"url": "https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2020-24659",
"html_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-24659",
"imported": "2026-07-17T22:03:35.127Z",
"database_specific": {
"status": "Modified"
},
"id": "CVE-2020-24659",
"published": "2020-09-04T15:15:10.803Z",
"modified": "2026-06-17T03:05:56.017Z"
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