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Red Hat: CVE-2018-0735: CVE-2018-0735 openssl: timing side channel attack in the ECDSA signature generation (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2018-0735: CVE-2018-0735 openssl: timing side channel attack in the ECDSA signature generation (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/29/2018
Created
11/07/2019
Added
11/06/2019
Modified
12/15/2023

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)

  • redhat-upgrade-openssl
  • redhat-upgrade-openssl-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-openssl-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-openssl-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-openssl-libs
  • redhat-upgrade-openssl-libs-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-openssl-perl
  • redhat-upgrade-openssl-static

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