CVE-2019-18222

NameCVE-2019-18222
DescriptionThe ECDSA signature implementation in ecdsa.c in Arm Mbed Crypto 2.1 and Mbed TLS through 2.19.1 does not reduce the blinded scalar before computing the inverse, which allows a local attacker to recover the private key via side-channel attacks.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3249-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
mbedtls (PTS)stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch2.4.2-1+deb9u4vulnerable
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)2.16.9-0~deb10u1fixed
bullseye2.16.9-0.1fixed
bookworm2.28.3-1fixed
sid, trixie3.6.2-3fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
mbedtlssourcebuster2.16.9-0~deb10u1DLA-3249-1
mbedtlssource(unstable)2.16.4-1

Notes

[stretch] - mbedtls <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2019-12
Fixed upstream in 2.20.0, 2.16.4 and 2.7.13

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