CVE-2016-8871 (GCVE-0-2016-8871)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-10-28 15:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:35
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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