Security update for mbedtls
This update to mbedtls 1.3.19 fixes security issues and bugs. The following vulnerability was fixed: CVE-2017-2784: A remote user could have used a specially crafted certificate to cause mbedtls to free a buffer allocated on the stack when verifying the validity of public key with a secp224k1 curve, which could have allowed remote code execution on some platforms (boo#1029017) The following non-security changes are included: - Add checks to prevent signature forgeries for very large messages while using RSA through the PK module in 64-bit systems. - Fixed potential livelock during the parsing of a CRL in PEM format
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
This update to mbedtls 1.3.19 fixes security issues and bugs. The following vulnerability was fixed: CVE-2017-2784: A remote user could have used a specially crafted certificate to cause mbedtls to free a buffer allocated on the stack when verifying the validity of public key with a secp224k1 curve, which could have allowed remote code execution on some platforms (boo#1029017) The following non-security changes are included: - Add checks to prevent signature forgeries for very large messages while using RSA through the PK module in 64-bit systems. - Fixed potential livelock during the parsing of a CRL in PEM format
05 / REFERENCES