Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:201816869000
Revision Date:2018-12-03Version:1
Title:CVE-2018-16869 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - 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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-16869
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) is installed.
  • AND The 'nettle' package in bionic is affected and needs fixing.
  • BACK