PT-2021-6619

CVE-2021-4209

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Published

2021-12-22

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Updated

2026-05-26

Description by

CVSS 2.0
6.8
Medium
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GnuTLS (affected versions not specified)
Description A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in GnuTLS, related to the implementation of the wrap nettle hash fast() function in the cryptographic library. This flaw can cause undefined behavior when providing zero-length input to Nettle's hash update functions, which internally call memcpy(). The issue can lead to a denial of service after authentication in rare circumstances.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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Related identifiers
ALT-PU-2022-2183
ALT-PU-2024-7207
ALT-PU-2024-7758
ALT-PU-2024-7788
DLA-3070-1
JLSEC-2026-522
MGASA-2022-0098
OESA-2022-1889
OPENSUSE-SU-2022:0717-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2022_0717-1
SUSE-SU-2022:0677-1
SUSE-SU-2022_0677-1
SUSE-SU-2022:0678-1
SUSE-SU-2022_0678-1
SUSE-SU-2022:0717-1
SUSE-SU-2022_0717-1
SUSE-SU-2022:2830-1
SUSE-SU-2022_2830-1
USN-5550-1
USN-5750-1
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