Information Exposure Affecting nettle package, versions <3.3-1
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.37% (73rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-NETTLE-301994
- published 14 Apr 2017
- disclosed 14 Apr 2017
Introduced: 14 Apr 2017
CVE-2016-6489 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9 nettle to version 3.3-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nettle package and not the nettle package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
The RSA and DSA decryption code in Nettle makes it easier for attackers to discover private keys via a cache side channel attack.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6489
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-21
- https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/596.pdf
- https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/commit/3fe1d6549765ecfb24f0b80b2ed086fdc818bff3
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/29/7
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1362016
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2582.html
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-6489
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3193-1
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