FKIE_CVE-2016-6489

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-04-14 18:59 - Updated: 2025-04-20 01:37
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
The RSA and DSA decryption code in Nettle makes it easier for attackers to discover private keys via a cache side channel attack.
References
security@debian.orghttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2582.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@debian.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/29/7Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
security@debian.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3193-1Third Party Advisory
security@debian.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1362016Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@debian.orghttps://eprint.iacr.org/2016/596.pdfTechnical Description
security@debian.orghttps://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/commit/3fe1d6549765ecfb24f0b80b2ed086fdc818bff3Patch, Third Party Advisory
security@debian.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-21Third Party Advisory
security@debian.orghttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2582.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/29/7Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3193-1Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1362016Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/596.pdfTechnical Description
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/commit/3fe1d6549765ecfb24f0b80b2ed086fdc818bff3Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-21Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.htmlThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop 7.0
redhat enterprise_linux_hpc_node 7.0
redhat enterprise_linux_server 7.0
redhat enterprise_linux_workstation 7.0
canonical ubuntu_linux 12.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 16.10
nettle_project nettle *
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