Name | CVE-2018-5407 |
Description | Simultaneous Multi-threading (SMT) in processors can enable local users to exploit software vulnerable to timing attacks via a side-channel timing attack on 'port contention'. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DLA-1586-1, DSA-4348-1, DSA-4355-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
openssl (PTS) | buster, buster (security) | 1.1.1n-0+deb10u3 | fixed |
bullseye (security), bullseye | 1.1.1n-0+deb11u3 | fixed | |
bookworm, sid | 3.0.7-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
openssl | source | jessie | 1.0.1t-1+deb8u10 | DLA-1586-1 | ||
openssl | source | stretch | 1.1.0j-1~deb9u1 | DSA-4348-1 | ||
openssl | source | (unstable) | 1.1.1~~pre9-1 | |||
openssl1.0 | source | stretch | 1.0.2q-1~deb9u1 | DSA-4355-1 | ||
openssl1.0 | source | (unstable) | 1.0.2q-1 |
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20181112.txt
OpenSSL_1_0_2-stable: https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git;a=commit;h=b18162a7c9bbfb57112459a4d6631fa258fd8c0c
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/11/01/4
https://github.com/bbbrumley/portsmash
This is not an issue in software but in a hardware issue. Issue can be
mitigated e.g. for OpenSSL.