Information Exposure Affecting botan package, versions <2.7.0-r0
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE319-BOTAN-6105742
- published 8 Dec 2023
- disclosed 15 Jun 2018
Introduced: 15 Jun 2018
CVE-2018-12435 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.19 botan to version 2.7.0-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream botan package and not the botan package as distributed by Alpine.
See How to fix? for Alpine:3.19 relevant fixed versions and status.
Botan 2.5.0 through 2.6.0 before 2.7.0 allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP, related to dsa/dsa.cpp, ec_group/ec_group.cpp, and ecdsa/ecdsa.cpp. To discover an ECDSA key, the attacker needs access to either the local machine or a different virtual machine on the same physical host.
References
- https://botan.randombit.net/security.html
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-12435
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-12435
- https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/48fc8df51d99f9d8ba251219367b3d629cc848e3
- https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/our-research/technical-advisory-return-of-the-hidden-number-problem/