Security Advisory

CVE-2018-12440

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-06-15 02:00:00
Last updated 2024-09-16 20:37:40
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

BoringSSL through 2018-06-14 allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on DSA signatures, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP. To discover a DSA key, the attacker needs access to either the local machine or a different virtual machine on the same physical host.