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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-3580: Moderate: gnutls and nettle security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-4451)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-3580: Moderate: gnutls and nettle security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-4451)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/05/2021
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
05/20/2022

Description

A flaw was found in the way nettle's RSA decryption functions handled specially crafted ciphertext. An attacker could use this flaw to provide a manipulated ciphertext leading to application crash and denial of service.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-gnutls
  • alma-upgrade-gnutls-c++
  • alma-upgrade-gnutls-dane
  • alma-upgrade-gnutls-devel
  • alma-upgrade-gnutls-utils
  • alma-upgrade-nettle
  • alma-upgrade-nettle-devel

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