MGASA-2019-0103

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    MGASA-2019-0103

    Published: 7 Mar 2019Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-16868

    Summary: Updated gnutls packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: 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. (CVE-2018-16868)

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0103.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24066, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/INZ7O52ANE3RPKUWDI3TKPVVHQNKHVKY/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: gnutls

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/gnutls?arch=source&distro=mageia-6

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.5.13-1.2.mga6

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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