CVE-2021-3623

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3623

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3623.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202107-9

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed0.8.4-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed0.9.1-1
debian debianforkyfixed0.9.1-1
debian debiansidfixed0.9.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed0.9.1-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.