Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201816868000
Revision Date:2018-12-03Version:1
Title:CVE-2018-16868 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.
Description:A Bleichenbacher type side-channel based padding oracle attack was found in the way gnutls handles verification of RSA decrypted PKCS#1 v1.5 data. An attacker who is able to run process on the same physical core as the victim process, could use this to extract plaintext or in some cases downgrade any TLS connections to a vulnerable server.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-16868
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND The 'gnutls28' package in xenial is affected and needs fixing.
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