Vigil@nce - Crypto++: information disclosure via ECDSA Signature Timing Side Channel
October 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
– Impacted products: openSUSE Leap, SLES.
– Severity: 2/4.
– Consequences: data reading.
– Provenance: document.
– Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
– Creation date: 21/08/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can bypass access restrictions to data via ECDSA
Signature Timing Side Channel of Crypto++, in order to obtain
sensitive information. This vulnerability originates from
VIGILANCE-VUL-30530.
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