CVE-2006-2940
CVE-2006-2940
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This page shows selected source facts. See the linked advisories for the complete description and affected versions.
OpenSSL 0.9.7 before 0.9.7l, 0.9.8 before 0.9.8d, and earlier versions allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via parasitic public keys with large (1) "public exponent" or (2) "public modulus" values in X.509 certificates that require extra time to process when using RSA signature verification.
EPSS 5.1% · Fix available
- Published
- Updated
Affected products and versions
Original sources
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:172
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22212
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-353-2
- http://support.attachmate.com/techdocs/2374.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750
- http://www.vmware.com/support/esx21/doc/esx-213-200612-patch.html
- http://www.uniras.gov.uk/niscc/docs/re-20060928-00661.pdf?lang=en
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23915
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-201534-1
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01118771
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016943
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23038
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0054
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1195
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23309
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26893
- http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-3069097-patch.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4401
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-353-1
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=461863&group_id=69227
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22116
- https://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00967144
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-260.htm
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-2940