Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-3623
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:49 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2021-3623
Complete source record
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