ArchLinux: 201710-17: botan: information disclosure
Summary
A cryptographic cache-based side channel in the RSA implementation in Botan before 1.10.17, and 1.11.x and 2.x before 2.3.0, allows a local attacker to recover information about RSA secret keys, as demonstrated by CacheD. This occurs because an array is indexed with bits derived from a secret key.
Resolution
Upgrade to 2.3.0-1.
# pacman -Syu "botan>=2.3.0-1"
The problem has been fixed upstream in version 2.3.0.
References
https://github.com/randombit/botan/issues/1222 https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/95df7f155570949837e8e28e733f3d59408092da https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/2718c02d429d024b2cd65534f7e54cab1d123348 https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity17/technical-sessions/presentation/wang-shuai https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2017-14737
Workaround
None.