Ola Lundqvist pushed to branch master at Debian Security Tracker / 
security-tracker


Commits:
eaf26e42 by Ola Lundqvist at 2019-01-19T22:42:58Z
Changed decision about nettle update.

- - - - -


2 changed files:

- data/CVE/list
- data/dla-needed.txt


Changes:

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data/CVE/list
=====================================
@@ -23347,12 +23347,11 @@ CVE-2018-16870 (It was found that wolfssl before 
3.15.7 is vulnerable to a new v
        NOTE: https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/pull/1950
 CVE-2018-16869 (A Bleichenbacher type side-channel based padding oracle attack 
was ...)
        - nettle 3.4.1~rc1-1
-       [jessie] - nettle <ignored> (Not important enough, see note below)
        NOTE: http://cat.eyalro.net/
        NOTE: 
https://lists.lysator.liu.se/pipermail/nettle-bugs/2018/007363.html
        NOTE: The upstream correction is to make a new public function that 
packages using
-       NOTE: nettle can use. The new function has a 60% performance penalty. 
Since all packages
-       NOTE: using nettle needs to be updated it is not suitable for an 
oldstable update.
+       NOTE: nettle can use. This means that fixing this CVE does not solve 
anything on its
+       NOTE: own, but it is a pre-requisite for fixing other CVEs like 
CVE-2018-16868.
 CVE-2018-16868 (A Bleichenbacher type side-channel based padding oracle attack 
was ...)
        [experimental] - gnutls28 3.6.5-1
        - gnutls28 3.6.5-2
@@ -23360,6 +23359,8 @@ CVE-2018-16868 (A Bleichenbacher type side-channel 
based padding oracle attack w
        NOTE: http://cat.eyalro.net/
        NOTE: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/issues/630
        NOTE: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/merge_requests/832
+       NOTE: CVE-2018-16869 must be fixed first and a new build dependency on 
this new
+       NOTE: nettle version.
 CVE-2018-16867 (A flaw was found in qemu Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) before 
version ...)
        - qemu 1:3.1+dfsg-1 (bug #915884)
        - qemu-kvm <removed>


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data/dla-needed.txt
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@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ linux-4.9 (Ben Hutchings)
 --
 mxml (Abhijith PA)
 --
+nettle (Ola Lundqvist)
+  NOTE: 20190119: Prerequisite for gnutls28 being fixed.
+--
 nss
   NOTE: 20181212: Bug report not public but it is likely that the package is 
vulnerable. Maintainer not contacted
   NOTE: 20181212: yet. Further investigation needed.



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