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Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2021-20231)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 12, 2021
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A security issue was found in GnuTLS before version 3.7.1. It was found that the client sending a "key_share" extension may result in dereferencing a pointer no longer valid after realloc(). This only happens in TLS 1.3 and only when the client sends a large Client Hello message, e.g., when HRR is sent in a resumed session previously negotiated large FFDHE parameters, because the initial allocation of the buffer is large enough without having to call realloc().

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

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