CVE-2021-3580

A flaw was found in the way nettle’s RSA decryption functions handled specially crafted ciphertext. An attacker could use this flaw to provide a manipulated ciphertext leading to application crash and denial of service.

Summary:

A flaw was found in the way nettle’s RSA decryption functions handled specially crafted ciphertext. An attacker could use this flaw to provide a manipulated ciphertext leading to application crash and denial of service.

Reference Links(if available):

  • https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1967983
  • https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00008.html
  • CVSS Score (if available)

    v2: / LOWAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

    v3: / HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

    Links to Exploits(if available)