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Debian 11 DLA-4236-1 critical: mbedtls timing and denial of service issues

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Calendar Grey June 30, 2025
Dist Debian Esm H88
Serious flaws discovered in mbedtls have led to urgent security patches for Debian 11. Updating is advised to ensure safety.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been fixed in mbedtls, a lightweight crypto and SSL/TLS library

Summary

CVE-2021-24119

A side-channel vulnerability in base64 PEM file decoding allows
system-level (administrator) attackers to obtain information about
secret RSA keys via a controlled-channel and side-channel attack on
software running in isolated environments that can be single stepped,
especially Intel SGX.

CVE-2021-36647

Function mbedtls_mpi_exp_mod() in lignum.c in Mbed TLS Mbed TLS all
versions before 3.0.0, 2.27.0 or 2.16.11 allowed attackers with access
to precise enough timing and memory access information (typically an
untrusted operating system attacking a secure enclave such as SGX or
the TrustZone secure world) to recover the private keys used in RSA.

CVE-2021-43666

In the mbedtls_pkcs12_derivation function an input password's length
is 0 caused a denial of service.

CVE-2021-44732

Function mbedtls_ssl_set_session() performed a double free in certain
out-of-memory conditions.

CVE-2022-46392

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Package: mbedtls
Version: 2.16.9-0.1+deb11u1
CVE ID: CVE-2021-24119 CVE-2021-36647 CVE-2021-43666 CVE-2021-44732

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