In Mbed TLS before 3.1.0, psa_aead_generate_nonce allows policy bypass or oracle-based decryption when the output buffer is at memory locations accessible to an untrusted application.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - In Mbed TLS before 3.1.0, psa_aead_generate_nonce allows policy bypass or oracle-based decryption when the     output buffer is at memory locations accessible to an untrusted application. (CVE-2021-45451)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-1dd9dc5140 advisory.

    Update to 2.28.1

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-ff582c5b0d advisory.

    Update to 2.28.1

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
243716	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-45451	Nessus	Misc.	high
211434	Fedora 37 : mbedtls (2022-1dd9dc5140)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
169042	Fedora 36 : mbedtls (2022-ff582c5b0d)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

Detections

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CVE-2021-45451

high

Tenable Plugins

high

high

high