vulnerability
Debian: CVE-2018-16868: gnutls28 -- security update
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N) | Dec 3, 2018 | Jul 30, 2024 | Mar 30, 2026 |
Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Dec 3, 2018
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026
Description
A Bleichenbacher type side-channel based padding oracle attack was found in the way gnutls handles verification of RSA decrypted PKCS#1 v1.5 data. An attacker who is able to run process on the same physical core as the victim process, could use this to extract plaintext or in some cases downgrade any TLS connections to a vulnerable server.
Solution
debian-upgrade-gnutls28
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