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OpenSSL Timing vulnerability in ECDSA signature generation (CVE-2018-0735)

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OpenSSL Timing vulnerability in ECDSA signature generation (CVE-2018-0735)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/29/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/29/2018
Modified
11/07/2019

Description

The OpenSSL ECDSA signature algorithm has been shown to be vulnerable to a timing side channel attack. An attacker could use variations in the signing algorithm to recover the private key. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.0j (Affected 1.1.0-1.1.0i). Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.1a (Affected 1.1.1).

Solution(s)

  • http-openssl-1_1_0-upgrade-1_1_0_j
  • http-openssl-1_1_1-upgrade-1_1_1_a

References

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