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CVE-2021-4209

6.5 medium Modified

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in GnuTLS. As Nettle's hash update functions internally call memcpy, providing zero-length input may cause undefined behavior. This flaw leads to a denial of service after authentication in rare circumstances.

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Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 2

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Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 6.5 · gnu, redhat, netappNVD modified 2026-10-14 11:16

Affected (CPE criteria) 5

  • cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gnutls:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:netapp:active_iq_unified_manager:-:*:*:*:*:vmware_vsphere:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:netapp:solidfire_\&_hci_management_node:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:netapp:hci_bootstrap_os:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 13