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Ubuntu: (CVE-2018-16868): gnutls28 vulnerability

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Dec 3, 2018
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Apr 16, 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

ubuntu-upgrade-gnutls28
Title
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