Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openssl-1_1-doc  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-OPENSSL11DOC-2755090
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed29 Jan 2019

Introduced: 29 Jan 2019

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

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.0.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openssl-1_1-doc package and not the openssl-1_1-doc package as distributed by SLES.

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).

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