Security Advisory

CVE-2000-1254

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-05-05 01:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 05:53:28
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.