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IBM AIX: openssl_advisory27 (CVE-2018-0737): Vulnerability in OpenSSL affects AIX

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IBM AIX: openssl_advisory27 (CVE-2018-0737): Vulnerability in OpenSSL affects AIX

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
04/16/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/03/2018
Modified
10/01/2024

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)

  • ibm-aix-openssl_advisory27

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