| Name | CVE-2016-8871 |
| Description | In Botan 1.11.29 through 1.11.32, RSA decryption with certain padding options had a detectable timing channel which could given sufficient queries be used to recover plaintext, aka an "OAEP side channel" attack. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| botan1.10 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.10.8-2+deb8u2 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 1.10.17-1+deb9u1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| botan1.10 | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
- botan1.10 <not-affected> (Only affects 1.11.29 through 1.11.32)