Information Exposure Affecting rhvm package, versions <0:4.4.5.9-0.1.el8ev


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-RHVM-3389266
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed13 Nov 2020

Introduced: 13 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-25657  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-203  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 rhvm to version 0:4.4.5.9-0.1.el8ev or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2021:1169.

NVD Description

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

A flaw was found in all released versions of m2crypto, where they are vulnerable to Bleichenbacher timing attacks in the RSA decryption API via the timed processing of valid PKCS#1 v1.5 Ciphertext. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

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