CVE-2020-36476

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-36476
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-08-23 02:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-01-11 17:01:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-212

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Arm Mbed Tls All All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Release Mbed TLS 2.16.8 · ARMmbed/mbedtls · GitHub MISC github.com
Release Mbed TLS 2.24.0 · ARMmbed/mbedtls · GitHub MISC github.com
Release Mbed TLS 2.7.17 · ARMmbed/mbedtls · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 3249-1] mbedtls security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2826-1] mbedtls security update MLIST lists.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178909 Debian Security Update for mbedtls (DLA 2826-1)
  • 181446 Debian Security Update for mbedtls (DLA 3249-1)
  • 710702 Gentoo Linux Mbed Transport Layer Security (TLS) Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202301-08)
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