First published: Mon Apr 18 2016(Updated: )
It was discovered that the GCM (Galois/Counter Mode) implementation in the JCE component of OpenJDK used non-constant time comparison when comparing GCM authentication tag. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to determine correct value of the authentication tag and bypass authentication protections of GCM.
Credit: secalert_us@oracle.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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Oracle JDK | =1.8.0-update77 | |
Oracle JRE | =1.8.0-update77 |
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