Name | CVE-2021-43666 |
Description | A 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. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DLA-3249-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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mbedtls (PTS) | stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 2.4.2-1+deb9u4 | vulnerable |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2.16.9-0~deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.16.9-0.1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 2.28.3-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 3.6.2-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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mbedtls | source | stretch | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
mbedtls | source | buster | 2.16.9-0~deb10u1 | | DLA-3249-1 | |
mbedtls | source | (unstable) | 2.28.0-1 | | | |
Notes
[bullseye] - mbedtls <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/issues/5136
Backport 2.16: https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/pull/5311