Information Exposure Affecting gnutls28 package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-GNUTLS28-340578
- published 3 Dec 2018
- disclosed 3 Dec 2018
Introduced: 3 Dec 2018
CVE-2018-16868 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:8
gnutls28
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnutls28
package and not the gnutls28
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:8
relevant fixed versions and status.
A Bleichenbacher type side-channel based padding oracle attack was found in the way gnutls handles verification of RSA decrypted PKCS#1 v1.5 data. An attacker who is able to run process on the same physical core as the victim process, could use this to extract plaintext or in some cases downgrade any TLS connections to a vulnerable server.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16868
- http://cat.eyalro.net/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00017.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00068.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16868
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106080
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-16868