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Medium ALSA-2021:1609 3 CVEs

Moderate: p11-kit security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published May 18, 2021 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

The p11-kit packages provide a mechanism to manage PKCS#11 modules. The p11-kit-trust subpackage includes a PKCS#11 trust module that provides certificate anchors and black lists based on configuration files.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: p11-kit (0.23.22). (BZ#1887853)

Security Fix(es):

* p11-kit: integer overflow when allocating memory for arrays or attributes and object identifiers (CVE-2020-29361)

* p11-kit: out-of-bounds read in p11_rpc_buffer_get_byte_array function in rpc-message.c (CVE-2020-29362)

* p11-kit: out-of-bounds write in p11_rpc_buffer_get_byte_array_value function in rpc-message.c (CVE-2020-29363)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 p11-kit 0.23.22-1.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 p11-kit-devel 0.23.22-1.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 p11-kit-server 0.23.22-1.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 p11-kit-trust 0.23.22-1.el8

Vulnerabilities 3

References

  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2020-29361
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2020-29362
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2020-29363