Bug 1325947 (CVE-2016-3995)

Summary:	CVE-2016-3995 cryptopp: bogus protection from timing attacks
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	alekcejk, mstevens
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1325949, 1325950, 1325951
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-04-11 13:16:25 UTC

A vulnerability was found in cryptopp library. A counter measure against timing attack was incorrectly implemented.

External references:

https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/issues/146

References and CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/50

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-04-11 13:19:31 UTC

Created cryptopp tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1325949]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1325950]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1325951]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2016-04-15 03:17:49 UTC

cryptopp-5.6.3-3.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:50:31 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.