Cryptographic Issues Affecting openssl package, versions <1:1.0.1e-34.el7_0.7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    12.58% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-OPENSSL-4517572
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 8 Jan 2015

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 openssl to version 1:1.0.1e-34.el7_0.7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2015:0066.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openssl package and not the openssl package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

The BN_sqr implementation in OpenSSL before 0.9.8zd, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0p, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1k does not properly calculate the square of a BIGNUM value, which might make it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via unspecified vectors, related to crypto/bn/asm/mips.pl, crypto/bn/asm/x86_64-gcc.c, and crypto/bn/bn_asm.c.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

5.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None