CVE-2021-44732 (GCVE-0-2021-44732)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-12-20 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:26
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Summary
Mbed TLS before 3.0.1 has a double free in certain out-of-memory conditions, as demonstrated by an mbedtls_ssl_set_session() failure.
Severity ?
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CWE
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