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Debian 8 DLA-1586-1 Critical: Timing Attack in OpenSSL Resolved

debian lts
Calendar Grey November 21, 2018
Dist Debian Esm H88
Critical OpenSSL patch released addresses vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 20.04, fixing race conditions that could leak sensitive information.
CVE-2018-0735 Samuel Weiser reported a timing vulnerability in the OpenSSL ECDSA signature generation, which might leak information to recover the
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security advisory information leak critical Debian OpenSSL timing attack

Summary

CVE-2018-5407
Alejandro Cabrera Aldaya, Billy Brumley, Sohaib ul Hassan, Cesar
Pereida Garcia and Nicola Tuveri reported a vulnerability to a
timing side channel attack, which might be used to recover the
private key.


For Debian 8 "Jessie", these problems have been fixed in version
1.0.1t-1+deb8u10.

We recommend that you upgrade your openssl packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS



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Package: openssl
Version: 1.0.1t-1+deb8u10
CVE ID: CVE-2018-0735 CVE-2018-5407

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security advisory information leak critical Debian OpenSSL timing attack

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