vulnerability

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
Aug 22, 2018
Added
May 31, 2019
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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

ubuntu-upgrade-libgnutls30
Title
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