Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mingw64-nettle (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-MINGW64NETTLE-1938515
- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed30 Nov 2018
Introduced: 30 Nov 2018
CVE-2018-16869 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:8.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mingw64-nettle package and not the mingw64-nettle package as distributed by Centos.
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.