CVE-2021-43666

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-43666
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-03-24 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-07-20 15:06:00 UTC
DescriptionA Denial of Service vulnerability exists in mbed TLS 3.0.0 and earlier in the mbedtls_pkcs12_derivation function when an input password's length is 0.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
mbedtls_pkcs12_derivation() can't exit when the input password length is 0. · Issue #5136 · ARMmbed/mbedtls · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 3249-1] mbedtls security update MLIST lists.debian.org
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 181446 Debian Security Update for mbedtls (DLA 3249-1)
  • 184161 Debian Security Update for mbedtls (CVE-2021-43666)
  • 710702 Gentoo Linux Mbed Transport Layer Security (TLS) Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202301-08)
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