Advisories » MGASA-2016-0290

Updated nettle/nettle2.7 packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 31 Aug 2016
Modification date: 31 Aug 2016
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2016-6489

Description

The cryptographic library nettle had a potential information leak problem
reported. RSA code is vulnerable to cache sharing related attacks
(CVE-2016-6489).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19190
• http://lwn.net/Alerts/697112/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6489

SRPMS

5/core

• nettle2.7-2.7.1-6.2.mga5
• nettle-3.0-3.2.mga5