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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-0737: Security patch for openssl (ALAS-2018-1004)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-0737: Security patch for openssl (ALAS-2018-1004)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
04/16/2018
Created
05/08/2020
Added
04/27/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

The OpenSSL RSA Key generation algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to a cache timing side channel attack. An attacker with sufficient access to mount cache timing attacks during the RSA key generation process could recover the private key. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.0i-dev (Affected 1.1.0-1.1.0h). Fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.2p-dev (Affected 1.0.2b-1.0.2o).

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openssl
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openssl-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openssl-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openssl-libs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openssl-perl
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-openssl-static

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