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Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package gnutls28  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1910-GNUTLS28-652202
  • published25 Sept 2018
  • disclosed22 Aug 2018
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Introduced: 22 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-10846  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-327  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnutls28 package and not the gnutls28 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

A cache-based side channel in GnuTLS implementation that leads to plain text recovery in cross-VM attack setting was found. An attacker could use a combination of "Just in Time" Prime+probe attack in combination with Lucky-13 attack to recover plain text using crafted packets.

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