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CVE-2016-0702

Public on 2016-03-03
Modified on 2016-04-28
Description

A side-channel attack was found that makes use of cache-bank conflicts on the Intel Sandy-Bridge microarchitecture. An attacker who has the ability to control code in a thread running on the same hyper-threaded core as the victim's thread that is performing decryption, could use this flaw to recover RSA private keys.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
2.6
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 openssl 2016-03-10 16:30 ALAS-2016-661

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 2.6 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 1.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 5.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N