Bug 1967983 (CVE-2021-3580) - CVE-2021-3580 nettle: Remote crash in RSA decryption via manipulated ciphertext
Summary: CVE-2021-3580 nettle: Remote crash in RSA decryption via manipulated ciphertext
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2021-3580
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1967986 1967987 1967989 1967990 1969395 1969396 1969398
Blocks: 1955718 1967984
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Reported: 2021-06-04 15:58 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-09-23 18:23 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: nettle 3.7.3
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A flaw was found in nettle in the way its RSA decryption functions handle specially crafted ciphertext. This flaw allows an attacker to provide a manipulated ciphertext, leading to an application crash and a denial of service.
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Last Closed: 2021-11-09 21:50:33 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:4451 0 None None None 2021-11-09 18:50:14 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2021-06-04 15:58:12 UTC
Multiple issues were found with Nettle's RSA decryption functions. These can be triggered by providing manipulated ciphertext and could lead to application crash and denial of service.

Since nettle is used with gnuTLS, there is a possibility that a remote client could crash a server compiled with gnuTLS when RSA is used for the initial key exchange.

Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2021-06-08 11:07:36 UTC
Created mingw-nettle tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1969396]


Created nettle tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1969395]

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2021-11-09 18:50:12 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2021:4451 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4451

Comment 8 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-11-09 21:50:31 UTC
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-3580


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