CVE-2007-3108 Information

Description

The BN_from_montgomery function in crypto/bn/bn_mont.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8e and earlier does not properly perform Montgomery multiplication which might allow local users to conduct a side-channel attack and retrieve RSA private keys.

Reference

http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=16275 http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000002.html http://openssl.org/news/patch-CVE-2007-3108.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/26411 http://secunia.com/advisories/26893 http://secunia.com/advisories/27021 http://secunia.com/advisories/27078 http://secunia.com/advisories/27097 http://secunia.com/advisories/27205 http://secunia.com/advisories/27330 http://secunia.com/advisories/27770 http://secunia.com/advisories/27870 http://secunia.com/advisories/28368 http://secunia.com/advisories/30161 http://secunia.com/advisories/30220 http://secunia.com/advisories/31467 http://secunia.com/advisories/31489 http://secunia.com/advisories/31531 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200710-06.xml http://support.attachmate.com/techdocs/2374.html http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-485.htm http://www.bluecoat.com/support/securityadvisories/advisory_openssl_rsa_key_reconstruction_vulnerability http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-07.xml http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/724968 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/RGII-74KLP3 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:193 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0813.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0964.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1003.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/476341/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485936/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486859/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25163 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0001.html http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0013.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2759 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4010 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0064 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2361 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2362 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2396 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1613 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1633 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9984 https://usn.ubuntu.com/522-1/