Evgeny Sidorov discovered that libcryptopp did not properly implement blinding to mask private key operations for the Rabin-Williams digital signature algorithm. This could allow remote attackers to mount a timing attack and retrieve the user’s private key (CVE-2015-2141).
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
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Mageia | 4 | noarch | libcryptopp | < 5.6.2-2.1 | libcryptopp-5.6.2-2.1.mga4 |
Mageia | 5 | noarch | libcryptopp | < 5.6.2-4.1 | libcryptopp-5.6.2-4.1.mga5 |