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CVE-2018-12440

BoringSSL through 2018-06-14 allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on DSA signatures, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP. To discover a DSA key, the attacker needs access to either the local machine or a different virtual machine on the same physical host.

Score
4.7 medium
Published
2018-06-15
Links
NVD · cve.org

Affected ports (1)

PortPackageVersionStatusMaintainer
security/boringsslboringssl0.20261020.0unaddressedosa@FreeBSD.org

Template for a VuXML entry

Range taken from the CVE record, check it before committing. make newentry in security/vuxml creates the vid.

  <vuln vid="FIXME (make newentry)">
    <topic>FIXME -- FIXME</topic>
    <affects>
      <package>
	<name>boringssl</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
      </package>
    </affects>
    <description>
      <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<p>BoringSSL through 2018-06-14 allows a memory-cache side-channel attack
	on DSA signatures, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or
	ROHNP. To discover a DSA key, the attacker needs access to either the
	local machine or a different virtual machine on the same physical
	host.</p>
      </body>
    </description>
    <references>
      <cvename>CVE-2018-12440</cvename>
      <url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12440</url>
    </references>
    <dates>
      <discovery>2018-06-15</discovery>
      <entry>2026-10-25</entry>
    </dates>
  </vuln>