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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-10846: Security patch for gnutls (ALAS-2018-1120)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-10846: Security patch for gnutls (ALAS-2018-1120)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
08/22/2018
Created
05/08/2020
Added
04/27/2020
Modified
02/14/2023

Description

A cache-based side channel in GnuTLS implementation that leads to plain text recovery in cross-VM attack setting was found. An attacker could use a combination of "Just in Time" Prime+probe attack in combination with Lucky-13 attack to recover plain text using crafted packets.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-gnutls
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-gnutls-c
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-gnutls-dane
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-gnutls-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-gnutls-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-gnutls-utils

References

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