CVE-2020-36476

High

Description

An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.24.0 (and before 2.16.8 LTS and before 2.7.17 LTS). There is missing zeroization of plaintext buffers in mbedtls_ssl_read to erase unused application data from memory.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.5
Exploit probability—
ProductArm Mbed Tls
PublishedAug 23, 2021
First seenAug 23, 2021

How to fix

Update
  • arm mbed_tls2.7.17, 2.16.8, 2.24.0 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
arm mbed_tlsv < 2.7.17, 2.8.0 ≤ v < 2.16.8, 2.17.0 ≤ v < 2.24.02.7.17, 2.16.8, 2.24.0
debian debian_linux9.0, 10.0—

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