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Ubuntu: USN-3181-1 (CVE-2016-7056): OpenSSL vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3181-1 (CVE-2016-7056): OpenSSL vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
01/10/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/01/2017
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

A timing attack flaw was found in OpenSSL 1.0.1u and before that could allow a malicious user with local access to recover ECDSA P-256 private keys.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libssl1-0-0

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