Bug 1121389 (CVE-2018-20187) - VUL-1: CVE-2018-20187: Botan: Side channel possible during ECC generation
Summary: VUL-1: CVE-2018-20187: Botan: Side channel possible during ECC generation
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2018-20187
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P4 - Low : Minor
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Assignee: Security Team bot
QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/222383/
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Reported: 2019-01-10 08:15 UTC by Karol Babioch
Modified: 2024-05-07 09:25 UTC (History)
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Description Karol Babioch 2019-01-10 08:15:15 UTC 
It was found that a possible Timing side channel during ECC key generation could leak information.

Upstream PR:
https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/1792

Upstream patch:
https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/1792/commits/70aa7303acfff9eefc24598c289a84db3579ebd1

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1664598
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2018-20187
Comment 1 Karol Babioch 2019-01-10 08:18:03 UTC 
The vulnerable code was only introduced with 1.11.20, so no SLE codestreams are affected by this. openSUSE codestreams are affected, though.
Comment 3 Thomas Leroy 2024-05-07 09:25:16 UTC 
All done, closing.