Nettle: Denial of service A vulnerability in Nettle could lead to a Denial of Service condition. nettle 2021-05-26 2021-05-26 780483 local, remote 3.7.2 3.7.2

Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in almost any context: In cryptographic toolkits for object-oriented languages, such as C++, Python, or Pike, in applications like lsh or GnuPG, or even in kernel space.

It was discovered that Nettle incorrectly handled signature verification.

A remote attacker could send a specially crafted valid-looking input signature, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition or force an invalid signature.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Nettle users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/nettle-3.7.2"
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