CVE-2016-6489

high

Description

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

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-21

https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/commit/3fe1d6549765ecfb24f0b80b2ed086fdc818bff3

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/596.pdf

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1362016

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3193-1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/29/7

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2582.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-04-14

Updated: 2020-11-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: High