CVE-2016-8871

Summary

CVECVE-2016-8871
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2016-10-28 15:59:00 UTC
Updated2016-11-29 19:20:00 UTC
DescriptionIn Botan 1.11.29 through 1.11.32, RSA decryption with certain padding options had a detectable timing channel which could given sufficient queries be used to recover plaintext, aka an "OAEP side channel" attack.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-200

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Botan Project Botan 1.11.29 All All All
Application Botan Project Botan 1.11.30 All All All
Application Botan Project Botan 1.11.31 All All All
Application Botan Project Botan 1.11.32 All All All
Application Botan Project Botan 1.11.29 All All All
Application Botan Project Botan 1.11.30 All All All
Application Botan Project Botan 1.11.31 All All All
Application Botan Project Botan 1.11.32 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Botan CVE-2016-8871 Local Information Disclosure Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Security Advisories — Botan CONFIRM botan.randombit.net Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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