CVE-2000-1254

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

crypto/rsa/rsa_gen.c in OpenSSL before 0.9.6 mishandles C bitwise-shift operations that exceed the size of an expression, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by leveraging improper RSA key generation on 64-bit HP-UX platforms.

crypto/rsa/rsa_gen.c in OpenSSL before 0.9.6 mishandles C bitwise-shift operations that exceed the size of an expression, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by leveraging improper RSA key generation on 64-bit HP-UX platforms.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2016-05-05 01:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2017-02-02 02:59:00

Affected Software

OpenSSL Project OpenSSL

References

[openssl-users] 20000529 64 bit problem in RSA_generate_key in 0.9.5a

[oss-security] 20160504 broken RSA keys

90109

1035750

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21995039

https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git;a=commit;h=db82b8f9bd432a59aea8e1014694e15fc457c2bb

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