debian · CVE-2018-16869

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 01:59:28 GMT

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CVE-2018-16869 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (nettle), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

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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