CVE-2016-3995 in Crypto++

Summary

The timing attack protection in Rijndael::Enc::ProcessAndXorBlock and Rijndael::Dec::ProcessAndXorBlock in Crypto++ (aka cryptopp) before 5.6.4 may be optimized out by the compiler, which allows attackers to conduct timing attacks.

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• Reservation: 04/10/2016
• Disclosure: 02/13/2017
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-96840 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-200 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 6.5
• EPSS: 0.01025
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3995
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3995
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-3995/