Information Exposure Affecting nettle-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-NETTLEDEVEL-1377698
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed30 Nov 2018

Introduced: 30 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-16869  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-203  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 nettle-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nettle-devel package and not the nettle-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 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.

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