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CVE-2021-3623 (GCVE-0-2021-3623)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-03-02 22:02 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:01
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Summary
A flaw was found in libtpms. The flaw can be triggered by specially-crafted TPM 2 command packets containing illegal values and may lead to an out-of-bounds access when the volatile state of the TPM 2 is marshalled/written or unmarshalled/read. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a libtpms Affected: Fixed-In - libtpms 0.6.5, libtpms 0.7.8, libtpms 0.8.4
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