USN-6499-1 fixed vulnerabilities in GnuTLS. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Original advisory details:
It was discovered that GnuTLS had a timing side-channel when handling certain RSA-PSK key exchanges. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to recover sensitive information.
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"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
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"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
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"score": "medium",
"type": "Ubuntu"
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"id": "CVE-2023-5981"
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