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DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12436

wolfcrypt/src/ecc.c in wolfSSL before 3.15.1.patch allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

wolfcrypt/src/ecc.c in wolfSSL before 3.15.1.patch allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP. To discover an ECDSA key, the attacker needs access to either the local machine or a different virtual machine on the same physical host.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 wolfssl

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.15.3+dfsg-1"}]}]

Debian:13 wolfssl

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.15.3+dfsg-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org