CVE-2016-5549
First published: Tue Jan 17 2017(Updated: )
A covert timing channel flaw was found in the ECDSA implementation in the Libraries component of OpenJDK. A remote attacker able to make a Java application generate ECDSA signatures on demand could possibly use this flaw to extract certain information about the key use via a timing side channel.
Credit: secalert_us@oracle.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Oracle JDK 6 | =1.7-update_121 | |
| Oracle JDK 6 | =1.8-update_111 | |
| Oracle JDK 6 | =1.8-update_112 | |
| Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) | =1.7-update_121 | |
| Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) | =1.8-update_111 | |
| Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) | =1.8-update_112 | |
| debian/openjdk-8 | 8u442-ga-2 |
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Reference Links
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0175.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0176.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0263.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0336.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0337.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0338.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2017-2881727.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95530
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037637
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1216
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-65
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-01
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20170119-0001/
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2016-5549
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660394
- https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/079cfc4710c7
- http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/232
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2017-2881727.html#AppendixJAVA
- http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/jdk/rev/41594ac7ca27
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0176.html
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0175.html
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0263.html
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0337.html
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0336.html
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0338.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1413923
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5549
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5549
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5549
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5549
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