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Debian: CVE-2025-47917: mbedtls -- security update

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 7, 2025
Added
Jul 7, 2025
Modified
Sep 1, 2025

Description

Mbed TLS before 3.6.4 allows a use-after-free in certain situations of applications that are developed in accordance with the documentation. The function mbedtls_x509_string_to_names() takes a head argument that is documented as an output argument. The documentation does not suggest that the function will free that pointer; however, the function does call mbedtls_asn1_free_named_data_list() on that argument, which performs a deep free(). As a result, application code that uses this function (relying only on documented behavior) is likely to still hold pointers to the memory blocks that were freed, resulting in a high risk of use-after-free or double-free. In particular, the two sample programs x509/cert_write and x509/cert_req are affected (use-after-free if the san string contains more than one DN).

Solutions

debian-upgrade-mbedtlsno-fix-debian-deb-package
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