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Red Hat: CVE-2016-7056: openssl: ECDSA P-256 timing attack key recovery

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Sep 10, 2018
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

A timing attack flaw was found in OpenSSL 1.0.1u and before that could allow a malicious user with local access to recover ECDSA P-256 private keys.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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