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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-19608: Improper Privilege Management

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-19608: Improper Privilege Management

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
12/05/2018
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/22/2024

Description

Arm Mbed TLS before 2.14.1, before 2.7.8, and before 2.1.17 allows a local unprivileged attacker to recover the plaintext of RSA decryption, which is used in RSA-without-(EC)DH(E) cipher suites.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-mbedtls
  • alpine-linux-upgrade-mbedtls2

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