[Git][security-tracker-team/security-tracker][master] Nettle conclusion.

Ola Lundqvist opal at debian.org
Sat Jan 19 22:15:09 GMT 2019


Ola Lundqvist pushed to branch master at Debian Security Tracker / security-tracker


Commits:
3e2f429c by Ola Lundqvist at 2019-01-19T22:14:49Z
Nettle conclusion.

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2 changed files:

- data/CVE/list
- data/dla-needed.txt


Changes:

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data/CVE/list
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@@ -23347,8 +23347,12 @@ CVE-2018-16870 (It was found that wolfssl before 3.15.7 is vulnerable to a new v
 	NOTE: https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/pull/1950
 CVE-2018-16869 (A Bleichenbacher type side-channel based padding oracle attack was ...)
 	- nettle 3.4.1~rc1-1
+	[jessie] - nettle <ignored> (Not important enough, see note below)
 	NOTE: http://cat.eyalro.net/
 	NOTE: https://lists.lysator.liu.se/pipermail/nettle-bugs/2018/007363.html
+	NOTE: The upstream correction is to make a new public function that packages using
+	NOTE: nettle can use. The new function has a 60% performance penalty. Since all packages
+	NOTE: using nettle needs to be updated it is not suitable for an oldstable update.
 CVE-2018-16868 (A Bleichenbacher type side-channel based padding oracle attack was ...)
 	[experimental] - gnutls28 3.6.5-1
 	- gnutls28 3.6.5-2


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data/dla-needed.txt
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@@ -76,8 +76,6 @@ linux-4.9 (Ben Hutchings)
 --
 mxml (Abhijith PA)
 --
-nettle (Ola Lundqvist)
---
 nss
   NOTE: 20181212: Bug report not public but it is likely that the package is vulnerable. Maintainer not contacted
   NOTE: 20181212: yet. Further investigation needed.



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