CVE-2016-3426

Public on 2016-04-21
Modified on 2016-04-21
Description

It was discovered that the GCM (Galois/Counter Mode) implementation in the JCE component in OpenJDK used a non-constant time comparison when comparing GCM authentication tags. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to determine the value of the authentication tag.

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 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2016-04-21 16:00 ALAS-2016-688

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 2.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 3.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N