CVE-2018-0498 Affecting polarssl package, versions <1.3.9-2.1+deb8u4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-POLARSSL-344560
  • published28 Jul 2018
  • disclosed28 Jul 2018

Introduced: 28 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-0498  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 polarssl to version 1.3.9-2.1+deb8u4 or higher.

NVD Description

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

ARM mbed TLS before 2.12.0, before 2.7.5, and before 2.1.14 allows local users to achieve partial plaintext recovery (for a CBC based ciphersuite) via a cache-based side-channel attack.