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CVE-2016-5548

OpenJDK: DSA implementation timing attack (Libraries, 8168728)

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

6.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · January 17, 2017

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

A covert timing channel flaw was found in the DSA implementation in the Libraries component of OpenJDK. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to extract certain information about the used key via a timing side channel.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE-385 · Covert Timing Channel