CVE-2021-3580

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    CVE-2021-3580

    Published: 5 Aug 2021Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00008.html, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-24, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211104-0006/, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1967983

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
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    Network
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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