CVE-2016-3426
Public on 2016-04-21
Modified on 2016-04-21
Description
It was discovered that the GCM (Galois/Counter Mode) implementation in the JCE component in OpenJDK used a non-constant time comparison when comparing GCM authentication tags. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to determine the value of the authentication tag.
Severity
Low
CVSS v3 Base Score
See breakdown
Affected Packages
| Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux 1 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2016-04-21 | ALAS-2016-688 | Fixed |
CVSS Scores
| Score Type | Score | Vector | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 2.6 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
| NVD | CVSSv2 | 4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
| NVD | CVSSv3 | 3.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |