Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libcrypto++  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1704-LIBCRYPTO-621290
  • published13 Feb 2017
  • disclosed13 Feb 2017

Introduced: 13 Feb 2017

CVE-2016-3995  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libcrypto++ package and not the libcrypto++ package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The timing attack protection in Rijndael::Enc::ProcessAndXorBlock and Rijndael::Dec::ProcessAndXorBlock in Crypto++ (aka cryptopp) before 5.6.4 may be optimized out by the compiler, which allows attackers to conduct timing attacks.