Channel and Path Errors Affecting libcrypto++ package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.96% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-LIBCRYPTO-458883
  • published9 Aug 2019
  • disclosed30 Jul 2019

Introduced: 30 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-14318  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-417  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:8 libcrypto++.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libcrypto++ package and not the libcrypto++ package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Crypto++ 8.3.0 and earlier contains a timing side channel in ECDSA signature generation. This allows a local or remote attacker, able to measure the duration of hundreds to thousands of signing operations, to compute the private key used. The issue occurs because scalar multiplication in ecp.cpp (prime field curves, small leakage) and algebra.cpp (binary field curves, large leakage) is not constant time and leaks the bit length of the scalar among other information.