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CVE-2021-20231
- Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2021-03-12 · updated 2026-10-14
- Weakness: CWE-416
Description
A flaw was found in gnutls. A use after free issue in client sending key_share extension may lead to memory corruption and other consequences.
Affected products
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 34
- [UNKNOWN] gnutls: from 3.6.3 before 3.7.1 — fixed in 3.7.1
- Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: all versions
- NetApp E-Series Performance Analyzer: all versions
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: [UNKNOWN] gnutls 3.7.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1922276
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r50661d6f0082709aad9a584431b59ec364f9974b63b07e0800230168%40%3Cissues.spark.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5d4001031e7790d8c6396c499522b4ed2aab782da87b1a14184793bb%40%3Cissues.spark.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5f88bed447742fcc5c47bf1c7be965ef450131914a6e1f85feba2779%40%3Cissues.spark.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6ac143ba6dd98bd4bf6bf010d46e56e254056459721ba18822d611f7%40%3Cissues.spark.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9cbc69e57276413788e90a6ee16c7c034ea4258d31935b70db2bd158%40%3Cissues.spark.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rcd70a4c88a47a75fd2d5f3ffb7cee8c2a18c713320bd90fdcb57495f%40%3Cissues.spark.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf5e1256d870193def4a82ad89ab95e63943a313b5ff0d81aa87e4532%40%3Cissues.spark.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfd5273d72d244178441e6904a2f2b41a3268f569e8092ea0b3b2bb20%40%3Cissues.spark.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OSLAE6PP33A7VYRYMYMUVB3U6B26GZER/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210416-0005/
- https://www.gnutls.org/security-new.html#GNUTLS-SA-2021-03-10
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