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openSUSE Leap 15.3: 2021:2143-1 Critical: libnettle Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey July 11, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A new update for openSUSE addressing a vital denial of service vulnerability in libnettle has just been released, accompanied by key information.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for libnettle fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2021-3580: Fixed a remote denial of service in the RSA decryption

via manipulated ciphertext (bsc#1187060).

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security update patch important openSUSE libnettle

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2021-2143=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

libhogweed4-3.4.1-4.18.1

libhogweed4-debuginfo-3.4.1-4.18.1

libnettle-debugsource-3.4.1-4.18.1

libnettle-devel-3.4.1-4.18.1

libnettle6-3.4.1-4.18.1

libnettle6-debuginfo-3.4.1-4.18.1

nettle-3.4.1-4.18.1

nettle-debuginfo-3.4.1-4.18.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (x86_64):

libhogweed4-32bit-3.4.1-4.18.1

libhogweed4-32bit-debuginfo-3.4.1-4.18.1

libnettle-devel-32bit-3.4.1-4.18.1

libnettle6-32bit-3.4.1-4.18.1

libnettle6-32bit-debuginfo-3.4.1-4.18.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3580.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1187060

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:2143-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 .

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security advisory denial of service security update patch important openSUSE libnettle

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