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Debian: CVE-2020-36422: mbedtls -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2020-36422: mbedtls -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
07/19/2021
Created
12/28/2022
Added
12/28/2022
Modified
12/28/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.23.0. A side channel allows recovery of an ECC private key, related to mbedtls_ecp_check_pub_priv, mbedtls_pk_parse_key, mbedtls_pk_parse_keyfile, mbedtls_ecp_mul, and mbedtls_ecp_mul_restartable.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-mbedtls

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