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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-36476: Mbed TLS: Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-36476: Mbed TLS: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
08/23/2021
Created
01/13/2023
Added
01/12/2023
Modified
01/12/2023

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(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-libs-mbedtls

References

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