vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-4990-1 (CVE-2021-3580): Nettle vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 17, 2021
Added
Jun 18, 2021
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in the way nettle's RSA decryption functions handled specially crafted ciphertext. An attacker could use this flaw to provide a manipulated ciphertext leading to application crash and denial of service.

Solutions

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