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Debian: CVE-2020-36476: mbedtls -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 23, 2021
Added
Nov 29, 2021
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.24.0 (and before 2.16.8 LTS and before 2.7.17 LTS). There is missing zeroization of plaintext buffers in mbedtls_ssl_read to erase unused application data from memory.

Solution

debian-upgrade-mbedtls
Title
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