Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Affecting libopenssl-1_0_0-devel package, versions <1.0.2p-3.8.1

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Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-LIBOPENSSL100DEVEL-2760566
published14 Apr 2022
disclosed1 Oct 2018

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Introduced: 1 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-0737 (opens in a new tab) CWE-327 (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 libopenssl-1_0_0-devel to version 1.0.2p-3.8.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libopenssl-1_0_0-devel package and not the libopenssl-1_0_0-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

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).