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CVE-2016-8871

Publication date 28 October 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.2 · Medium

Score breakdown

In Botan 1.11.29 through 1.11.32, RSA decryption with certain padding options had a detectable timing channel which could given sufficient queries be used to recover plaintext, aka an "OAEP side channel" attack.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
botan1.10 16.10 yakkety
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected
botan1.8 16.10 yakkety Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected

Notes


seth-arnold

marking not-affected per upstream's version numbers

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.2 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N