Security Advisory

CVE-2006-2940

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-09-28 18:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 18:06:27

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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