Bug 1654930 (CVE-2018-16869) - CVE-2018-16869 nettle: Leaky data conversion exposing a manager oracle
Summary: CVE-2018-16869 nettle: Leaky data conversion exposing a manager oracle
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-16869
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1655397 1655398 1655399 1655400 1655401 1655402 1655403 1658603
Blocks: 1649548
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-11-30 04:00 UTC by Sam Fowler
Modified: 2023-09-23 18:12 UTC (History)
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A 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 plain text or, in some cases, downgrade any TLS connections to a vulnerable server.
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Last Closed: 2021-10-25 22:22:10 UTC
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Description Sam Fowler 2018-11-30 04:00:44 UTC
Nettle is vulnerable to leaky data conversion exposing a manager oracle.

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2018-12-03 05:02:14 UTC
External References:

http://cat.eyalro.net/

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2018-12-03 05:07:07 UTC
Created mingw-nettle tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1655400]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1655398]


Created nettle tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-6 [bug 1655399]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1655397]


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