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Debian: CVE-2020-36475: mbedtls -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2020-36475: mbedtls -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/23/2021
Created
11/30/2021
Added
11/29/2021
Modified
11/29/2021

Description

An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.25.0 (and before 2.16.9 LTS and before 2.7.18 LTS). The calculations performed by mbedtls_mpi_exp_mod are not limited; thus, supplying overly large parameters could lead to denial of service when generating Diffie-Hellman key pairs.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-mbedtls

References

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