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DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36475
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...
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
Affected packages
Debian:12
mbedtls
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.16.9-0.1"}]}]
Debian:13
mbedtls
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.16.9-0.1"}]}]
Debian:14
mbedtls
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.16.9-0.1"}]}]
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org