Vulnerability from csaf_opensuse
Published
2021-04-30 19:22
Modified
2021-04-30 19:22
Summary
Security update for libnettle

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for libnettle
Description of the patch
This update for libnettle fixes the following issues: - CVE-2021-20305: Fixed the multiply function which was being called with out-of-range scalars (bsc#1184401). This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.
Patchnames
openSUSE-2021-635
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).


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