| Name | CVE-2024-28836 |
| Description | An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS 3.5.x before 3.6.0. When negotiating the TLS version on the server side, it can fall back to the TLS 1.2 implementation of the protocol if it is disabled. If the TLS 1.2 implementation was disabled at build time, a TLS 1.2 client could put a TLS 1.3-only server into an infinite loop processing a TLS 1.2 ClientHello, resulting in a denial of service. If the TLS 1.2 implementation was disabled at runtime, a TLS 1.2 client can successfully establish a TLS 1.2 connection with the server. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| mbedtls (PTS) | stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 2.4.2-1+deb9u4 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2.16.9-0~deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.16.9-0.1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.28.3-1 | fixed |
| trixie | 2.28.8-1 | fixed |
| sid | 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 |
|---|
| mbedtls | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
- mbedtls <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not enabled in any build which supports TLS 1.3)
https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/issues/8654
https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/commit/ad736991bb59211118a29fe115367c24495300c2 (mbedtls-3.6.0)
Experimental TLS 1.3 support not enabled in 2.x packages, TLS 1.3 is enabled
in Debian/experimental, but the first upload directly provides fixes, so mark
as <not-affected> altogether