CVE-2018-16869

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-16869
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-12-03 14:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-03 14:25:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-203

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Nettle Project Nettle All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
GNU Nettle CVE-2018-16869 Information Disclosure Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
1654930 – (CVE-2018-16869) CVE-2018-16869 nettle: Leaky data conversion exposing a manager oracle CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Your browser does not support frames. We recommend upgrading your browser. MISC cat.eyalro.net Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 198408 Ubuntu Security Notification for Nettle vulnerabilities (USN-4990-1)
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