Bug 1325947 (CVE-2016-3995) - CVE-2016-3995 cryptopp: bogus protection from timing attacks
Summary: CVE-2016-3995 cryptopp: bogus protection from timing attacks
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2016-3995
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1325949 1325950 1325951
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-04-11 13:16 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:05 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:50:31 UTC
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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.
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