PT-2016-6951 · Gnu+5 · Nettle+5

Published 2016-08-01 · Updated 2020-11-16 · CVE-2016-6489

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Nettle (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue makes it easier for attackers to discover private keys via a cache side channel attack, specifically affecting the RSA and DSA decryption code.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Side Channel Attack

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-203

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2062

CESA-2016_2582

CVE-2016-6489

DLA-593-1

MGASA-2016-0290

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10339-1

RHSA-2016:2582

RHSA-2016_2582

SUSE-SU-2017:1481-1

SUSE-SU-2017_1481-1

USN-3193-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Nettle

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 27

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6489 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3193-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-21 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0290.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0290 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/29/7 · Patch
• https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/commit/3fe1d6549765ecfb24f0b80b2ed086fdc818bff3 · Patch
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6489 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6489 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2582.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3193-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6489 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:1481-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3193-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6489 · Vendor Advisory