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Debian: CVE-2021-24119: mbedtls -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2021-24119: mbedtls -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
07/14/2021
Created
11/30/2021
Added
11/29/2021
Modified
11/29/2021

Description

In Trusted Firmware Mbed TLS 2.24.0, a side-channel vulnerability in base64 PEM file decoding allows system-level (administrator) attackers to obtain information about secret RSA keys via a controlled-channel and side-channel attack on software running in isolated environments that can be single stepped, especially Intel SGX.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-mbedtls

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