CVE-2021-3580

Name
CVE-2021-3580
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.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
MISC https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1967983
MLIST https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00008.html
CONFIRM https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211104-0006/

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:nettle_project:nettle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* nettle >= None < 3.7.3

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
nettle 3.11-main 3.5.1-r0 Fabian Affolter <fabian@affolter-engineering.ch> possibly vulnerable
nettle 3.14-main 3.7.3-r0 Fabian Affolter <fabian@affolter-engineering.ch> fixed
nettle 3.13-main 3.7.3-r0 Fabian Affolter <fabian@affolter-engineering.ch> fixed
nettle 3.15-main 3.7.3-r0 Fabian Affolter <fabian@affolter-engineering.ch> fixed
nettle 3.12-main 3.5.1-r2 Fabian Affolter <fabian@affolter-engineering.ch> fixed
nettle 3.16-main 3.7.3-r0 Fabian Affolter <fabian@affolter-engineering.ch> fixed