[Secure-testing-team] Bug#832983: nettle: CVE-2016-4689

Salvatore Bonaccorso carnil at debian.org
Sat Jul 30 14:27:38 UTC 2016


Source: nettle
Version: 3.2-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream patch

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for nettle.

CVE-2016-6489[0]:
RSA code is vulnerable to cache sharing related attacks

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6489
[1] https://lists.lysator.liu.se/pipermail/nettle-bugs/2016/003093.html
[2] https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/commit/3fe1d6549765ecfb24f0b80b2ed086fdc818bff3

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore



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