CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-1254

7.5 HIGH Published 2016-05-05 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-05-05
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-310

Description

crypto/rsa/rsa_gen.c in OpenSSL before 0.9.6 mishandles C bitwise-shift operations that exceed the size of an expression, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by leveraging improper RSA key generation on 64-bit HP-UX platforms.

Affected configurations

• openssl openssl (<= 0.9.5)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References