Vulnerability · Published Jan 29, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-3345
High 7.8
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.1% (higher than 65% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.1%top 35.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack tooling1Public PoC
Official description
_gcry_md_block_write in cipher/hash-common.c in Libgcrypt version 1.9.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow when the digest final function sets a large count value. It is recommended to upgrade to 1.9.1 or later.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgcrypt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=512c0c75276949f13b6373b5c04f7065af750b08 x_refsource_MISC
- https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2021q1/000455.html x_refsource_MISC
- https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2021q1/000456.html x_refsource_MISC
- https://gnupg.org x_refsource_MISC
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767814 x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html x_refsource_MISC