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High ALAS2-2021-1629 1 CVE

Important: nettle security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Apr 20, 2021 · Updated Apr 21, 2021

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-20305: A flaw was found in Nettle, where several Nettle signature verification functions (GOST DSA, EDDSA & ECDSA) result in the Elliptic Curve Cryptography point (ECC) multiply function being called with out-of-range scalers, possibly resulting in incorrect results. This flaw allows an attacker to force an invalid signature, causing an assertion failure or possible validation. The highest threat to this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability. 1942533: CVE-2021-20305 nettle: Out of bounds memory access in signature verification

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 nettle 0:2.7.1-9.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 nettle-debuginfo 0:2.7.1-9.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 nettle-devel 0:2.7.1-9.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-20305.html