vulnerability
Ubuntu: USN-4990-1 (CVE-2018-16869): Nettle vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N) | 2018-12-03 | 2021-06-18 | 2024-11-27 |
Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
2018-12-03
Added
2021-06-18
Modified
2024-11-27
Description
A Bleichenbacher type side-channel based padding oracle attack was found in the way nettle handles endian conversion of RSA decrypted PKCS#1 v1.5 data. An attacker who is able to run a process on the same physical core as the victim process, could use this flaw extract plaintext or in some cases downgrade any TLS connections to a vulnerable server.
Solution
ubuntu-upgrade-libnettle6
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