CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6489
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-04-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-203
Description
The RSA and DSA decryption code in Nettle makes it easier for attackers to discover private keys via a cache side channel attack.
Affected configurations
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux hpc node 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.10
• nettle project nettle (< 3.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-203 Observable Discrepancy weakness
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2582.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/29/7 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3193-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1362016 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/596.pdf Technical Description
- https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/commit/3fe1d6549765ecfb24f0b80b2ed086fdc818bff3 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-21 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2582.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/29/7 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3193-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1362016 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/596.pdf Technical Description
- https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/commit/3fe1d6549765ecfb24f0b80b2ed086fdc818bff3 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-21 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html Third Party Advisory