GnuTLS could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.
Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson discovered that the TLS protocol as used in GnuTLS was vulnerable to a timing side-channel attack known as the “Lucky Thirteen” issue. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform plaintext-recovery attacks via analysis of timing data.
27 February 2013
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
GnuTLS could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.
Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson discovered that the TLS protocol as used in GnuTLS was vulnerable to a timing side-channel attack known as the “Lucky Thirteen” issue. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform plaintext-recovery attacks via analysis of timing data.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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