Synopsis: Moderate: nettle security and bug fix update Advisory ID: SLSA-2016:2582-2 Issue Date: 2016-11-03 CVE Numbers: CVE-2015-8803 CVE-2015-8804 CVE-2015-8805 CVE-2016-6489 -- Security Fix(es): * Multiple flaws were found in the way nettle implemented elliptic curve scalar multiplication. These flaws could potentially introduce cryptographic weaknesses into nettle's functionality. (CVE-2015-8803, CVE-2015-8804, CVE-2015-8805) * It was found that nettle's RSA and DSA decryption code was vulnerable to cache-related side channel attacks. An attacker could use this flaw to recover the private key from a co-located virtual-machine instance. (CVE-2016-6489) Additional Changes: -- SL7 x86_64 nettle-2.7.1-8.el7.i686.rpm nettle-2.7.1-8.el7.x86_64.rpm nettle-debuginfo-2.7.1-8.el7.i686.rpm nettle-debuginfo-2.7.1-8.el7.x86_64.rpm nettle-devel-2.7.1-8.el7.i686.rpm nettle-devel-2.7.1-8.el7.x86_64.rpm - Scientific Linux Development Team