debian · CVE-2021-40529

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 01:00:16 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2021-40529 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (botan), 3 status rows across 3 suites (bookworm, bullseye, trixie): resolved 2, open 1.

Description:

The ElGamal implementation in Botan through 2.18.1, as used in Thunderbird and other products, allows plaintext recovery because, during interaction between two cryptographic libraries, a certain dangerous combination of the prime defined by the receiver's public key, the generator defined by the receiver's public key, and the sender's ephemeral exponents can lead to a cross-configuration attack against OpenPGP.

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