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CVE-2016-6489

Published: 14/04/2017 Updated: 16/11/2020
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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Vulnerability Summary

The RSA and DSA decryption code in Nettle makes it easier for malicious users to discover private keys via a cache side channel attack.

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Debian CVElist Bug Report Logs: nettle: CVE-2016-6489
Debian Bug report logs - #832983 nettle: CVE-2016-6489 Package: src:nettle; Maintainer for src:nettle is Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@debianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2016 14:30:01 UTC Severity: important Tags: confirmed, patch, security, upstream Found in versions ne ...
Ubuntu Security Notice: nettle vulnerability
Nettle could be made to expose sensitive information over the network ...
Red Hat: CVE-2016-6489
It was found that nettle's RSA and DSA decryption code was vulnerable to cache-related side channel attacks An attacker could use this flaw to recover the private key from a co-located virtual-machine instance ...

References

CWE-203https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/commit/3fe1d6549765ecfb24f0b80b2ed086fdc818bff3https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/596.pdfhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1362016http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3193-1http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/29/7http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2582.htmlhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-21https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.htmlhttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=832983https://usn.ubuntu.com/3193-1/https://nvd.nist.gov
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