A flaw was found in the way nettle's RSA decryption functions handled specially crafted ciphertext. An attacker could use this flaw to provide a manipulated ciphertext leading to application crash and denial of service.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1967983 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1967983 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.5 · nettle_project, redhat, debianNVD modified 2026-10-14 10:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 5
cpe:2.3:a:nettle_project:nettle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:netapp:ontap_select_deploy_administration_utility:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 9
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1967983 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-24
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211104-0006/ Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1967983 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-24
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211104-0006/ Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html