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Mageia 8 MGASA-2021-0353 Critical: tpm2-tools MITM Risk

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Calendar Grey July 16, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
MGASA-2021-0456 upgrades tpm2-software to address a vulnerability impacting data integrity. Discover further details here.
A flaw was found in tpm2-tools

Summary

A flaw was found in tpm2-tools. tpm2_import used a fixed AES key for the inner wrapper, potentially allowing a MITM attacker to unwrap the inner portion and reveal the key being imported. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality (CVE-2021-3565).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29194

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/XK5M7I66PBXSN663TSLAZ3V6TWWFCV7C/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3565

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical data breach data confidentiality MITM Mageia tpm2-tools

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/tpm2-tools-5.0-1.1.mga8

Severity
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Publication date: 16 Jul 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0353.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-3565

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical data breach data confidentiality MITM Mageia tpm2-tools

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