Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mingw64-nettle  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-MINGW64NETTLE-1362534
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed7 Jun 2021

Introduced: 7 Jun 2021

CVE-2021-3580  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mingw64-nettle package and not the mingw64-nettle package as distributed by RHEL.

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.