CVE-2016-7055

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2016-10-11
CWE:
CWE-682
Bugzilla:
1393929: CVE-2016-7055 openssl: Carry propagating bug in Montgomery multiplication

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

There is a carry propagating bug in the Broadwell-specific Montgomery multiplication procedure in OpenSSL 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 before 1.1.0c that handles input lengths divisible by, but longer than 256 bits. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA, DSA and DH private keys are impossible. This is because the subroutine in question is not used in operations with the private key itself and an input of the attacker's direct choice. Otherwise the bug can manifest itself as transient authentication and key negotiation failures or reproducible erroneous outcome of public-key operations with specially crafted input. Among EC algorithms only Brainpool P-512 curves are affected and one presumably can attack ECDH key negotiation. Impact was not analyzed in detail, because pre-requisites for attack are considered unlikely. Namely multiple clients have to choose the curve in question and the server has to share the private key among them, neither of which is default behaviour. Even then only clients that chose the curve will be affected.

Find out more about CVE-2016-7055 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 2.6
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 3.7
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Low

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 Server RHSA-2018:2185 2018-07-12
Red Hat JBoss Core Services 1 RHSA-2018:2187 2018-07-12
Red Hat JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6 Server RHSA-2018:2186 2018-07-12

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 openssl Not affected
Red Hat JBoss EWS 2 openssl Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss EWS 1 openssl Not affected
Red Hat JBoss EAP 6 openssl Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 openssl098e Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 openssl Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 OVMF Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 openssl Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 openssl098e Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 openssl097a Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 openssl Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the OpenSSL project for reporting this issue.

External References

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