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CVE-2018-16869
medium
Description
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 plaintext or in some cases downgrade any TLS connections to a vulnerable server.
References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16869