Scientific Linux Security Update : openssl on SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (20160301) (DROWN)

A padding oracle flaw was found in the Secure Sockets Layer version 2.0 SSLv2 protocol. An attacker can potentially use this flaw to decrypt RSA-encrypted cipher text from a connection using a newer SSL/TLS protocol version, allowing them to decrypt such connections. This cross-protocol attack is...

OpenSSL: Side channel attack on modular exponentiation

A side-channel attack was found that makes use of cache-bank conflicts on the Intel Sandy-Bridge microarchitecture. An attacker who has the ability to control code in a thread running on the same hyper-threaded core as the victim's thread that is performing decryption, could use this flaw to...