vulnerability

Arch Linux: Private key recovery (CVE-2018-0495)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jun 13, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

An implementation flaw has been discovered in multiple cryptographic libraries that allows a side-channel based attacker to recover ECDSA or DSA private keys. When these cryptographic libraries use the private key to create a signature, such as for a TLS or SSH connection, they inadvertently leak information through memory caches. An unprivileged attacker running on the same machine can collect the information from a few thousand signatures and recover the value of the private key.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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