[Git][security-tracker-team/security-tracker][master] Changed decision about nettle update.

[Ola Lundqvist]

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


Commits:
eaf26e42 by Ola Lundqvist at 2019-01-19T22:42:58Z
Changed decision about nettle update.

- - - - -


2 changed files:

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


Changes:

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data/CVE/list
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@@ -23347,12 +23347,11 @@ 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.
+	NOTE: nettle can use. This means that fixing this CVE does not solve anything on its
+	NOTE: own, but it is a pre-requisite for fixing other CVEs like CVE-2018-16868.
 CVE-2018-16868 (A Bleichenbacher type side-channel based padding oracle attack was ...)
 	[experimental] - gnutls28 3.6.5-1
 	- gnutls28 3.6.5-2
@@ -23360,6 +23359,8 @@ CVE-2018-16868 (A Bleichenbacher type side-channel based padding oracle attack w
 	NOTE: http://cat.eyalro.net/
 	NOTE: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/issues/630
 	NOTE: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/merge_requests/832
+	NOTE: CVE-2018-16869 must be fixed first and a new build dependency on this new
+	NOTE: nettle version.
 CVE-2018-16867 (A flaw was found in qemu Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) before version ...)
 	- qemu 1:3.1+dfsg-1 (bug #915884)
 	- qemu-kvm <removed>


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data/dla-needed.txt
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@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ linux-4.9 (Ben Hutchings)
 --
 mxml (Abhijith PA)
 --
+nettle (Ola Lundqvist)
+  NOTE: 20190119: Prerequisite for gnutls28 being fixed.
+--
 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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