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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2018-12-03T14:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T10:32:54.115Z

Reserved: 2018-09-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-16869

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-12-03T14:29:00.380

Modified: 2023-02-03T14:25:21.970

Link: CVE-2018-16869

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-11-30T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-16869 - Bugzilla