CWE-514 Covert Channel
classA covert channel is a path that can be used to transfer information in a way not intended by the system's designers.
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vulnerabilities (3)
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| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
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| CVE-2023-0458US | medium4.7 | — | ||
A speculative pointer dereference problem exists in the Linux Kernel on the do_prlimit() function. The resource argument value is controlled and is used in pointer arithmetic for t… | ||||
| CVE-2026-106582US | — | — | ||
In sshd and ssh in OpenSSH before 10.6, an LZ77 dictionary coder can be used even though this is contraindicated by the arXiv 2609.07709 "Crossing the Streams" findings. | ||||
| CVE-2026-42768US | — | — | ||
Issue summary: The CMS_decrypt and PKCS7_decrypt functions are vulnerable to
Bleichenbacher-style attack when an attacker is able to provide the CMS or
S/MIME messages and observe… | ||||
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attack patterns (1)
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