Information Exposure Affecting nettle package, versions <3.4.1~rc1-1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-NETTLE-302015
- published 3 Dec 2018
- disclosed 3 Dec 2018
Introduced: 3 Dec 2018
CVE-2018-16869 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable nettle to version 3.4.1~rc1-1 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:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.
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.