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Ubuntu: USN-3999-1 (CVE-2018-10844): GnuTLS vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3999-1 (CVE-2018-10844): GnuTLS vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
08/22/2018
Created
06/04/2019
Added
05/31/2019
Modified
01/20/2021

Description

It was found that the GnuTLS implementation of HMAC-SHA-256 was vulnerable to a Lucky thirteen style attack. Remote attackers could use this flaw to conduct distinguishing attacks and plaintext-recovery attacks via statistical analysis of timing data using crafted packets.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libgnutls30

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