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RedHat: RHSA-2021-2760 Important: Nettle Memory Access Issue

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Calendar Grey July 19, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial nettle patch rollout for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 tackles severe memory read vulnerabilities.
An update for nettle is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Advanced Update Support

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in almost any context: In crypto toolkits for object-oriented languages, such as C++, Python, or Pike, in applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel space.
Security Fix(es):
* nettle: Out of bounds memory access in signature verification (CVE-2021-20305)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux security threat important security fix Important severity memory access issue nettle update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20305 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 7.3):
Source: nettle-2.7.1-9.el7_3.src.rpm
x86_64: nettle-2.7.1-9.el7_3.i686.rpm nettle-2.7.1-9.el7_3.x86_64.rpm nettle-debuginfo-2.7.1-9.el7_3.i686.rpm nettle-debuginfo-2.7.1-9.el7_3.x86_64.rpm nettle-devel-2.7.1-9.el7_3.i686.rpm nettle-devel-2.7.1-9.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:2760-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2760
Issue date: 2021-07-19

Topic

An update for nettle is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3Advanced Update Support.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux security threat important security fix Important severity memory access issue nettle update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 7.3) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1942533 - CVE-2021-20305 nettle: Out of bounds memory access in signature verification

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