FreeBSD : OpenSSL -- timing vulnerability (6f170cf2-e6b7-11e8-a9a8-b499baebfeaf)

The OpenSSL project reports : Microarchitecture timing vulnerability in ECC scalar multiplication. Severity: Low OpenSSL ECC scalar multiplication, used in e.g. ECDSA and ECDH, has been shown to be vulnerable to a microarchitecture timing side channel attack. An attacker with sufficient access to...

OpenSSL -- timing vulnerability

The OpenSSL project reports: Microarchitecture timing vulnerability in ECC scalar multiplication. Severity: Low OpenSSL ECC scalar multiplication, used in e.g. ECDSA and ECDH, has been shown to be vulnerable to a microarchitecture timing side channel attack. An attacker with sufficient access to...

Intel (Skylake Kaby Lake) - PortSmash CPU SMT Side-Channel

Intel Skylake Kaby Lake - PortSmash CPU SMT Side-Channel Summary This is a proof-of-concept exploit of the PortSmash microarchitecture attack, tracked by CVE-2018-5407. Setup Prerequisites A CPU featuring SMT e.g. Hyper-Threading is the only requirement. This exploit code should work out of the b...

Vulnerability in OpenSSL - Microarchitecture timing vulnerability in ECC scalar multiplication

OpenSSL ECC scalar multiplication, used in e.g. ECDSA and ECDH, has been shown to be vulnerable to a microarchitecture timing side channel attack. An attacker with sufficient access to mount local timing attacks during ECDSA signature generation could recover the private key. Found by Alejandro...

Security Bulletin: IBM Content Collector for SAP Application is affected by a side channel attack vulnerability in GSKit

Summary IBM Content Collector for SAP Applications has addressed the following vulnerability: OpenSSL which is part of GSKit Crypto, could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information by a side-channel attach against a system based on Intel Sandy-Bridge microarchitecture. An attacker...

Updated openssl packages fix security vulnerabilities

Update openssl packages fix security vulnerabilities: Yuval Yarom from the University of Adelaide and NICTA, Daniel Genkin from Technion and Tel Aviv University, and Nadia Heninger from the University of Pennsylvania discovered a side-channel attack which makes use of cache-bank conflicts on the...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...