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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4296-1 mbedtls -- security update

Date Reported:

16 Sep 2018

Affected Packages:

mbedtls

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-0497, CVE-2018-0498.

More information:

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in mbedtls, a lightweight crypto and SSL/TLS library which could result in plain text recovery via side-channel attacks.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.4.2-1+deb9u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your mbedtls packages.

For the detailed security status of mbedtls please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/mbedtls