CVE-2021-3746

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

Description

A flaw was found in the libtpms code that may cause access beyond the boundary of internal buffers. The vulnerability is triggered by specially-crafted TPM2 command packets that then trigger the issue when the state of the TPM2's volatile state is written. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This issue affects libtpms versions before 0.8.5, before 0.7.9 and before 0.6.6.

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-2021-3746

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3746.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed0.8.5-1
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.