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CVE-2018-0733 Incorrect CRYPTO_memcmp on HP-UX PA-RISC

MediumCVSS 5.9 EPSS 8.3%
Published
Updated
Exploit status
No public exploit known

Description

Because of an implementation bug the PA-RISC CRYPTO_memcmp function is effectively reduced to only comparing the least significant bit of each byte. This allows an attacker to forge messages that would be considered as authenticated in an amount of tries lower than that guaranteed by the security claims of the scheme. The module can only be compiled by the HP-UX assembler, so that only HP-UX PA-RISC targets are affected. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.0h (Affected 1.1.0-1.1.0g).

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
debian/openssl(Debian:12) < 1.1.0h-1 1.1.0h-1
debian/openssl(Debian:13) < 1.1.0h-1 1.1.0h-1
debian/openssl(Debian:14) < 1.1.0h-1 1.1.0h-1
OpenSSL >= 1.1.0, <= 1.1.0g No fix listed
alpine/openssl(Alpine:v3.3) >= 1.1.0, < 1.0.2o-r0 1.0.2o-r0
alpine/openssl(Alpine:v3.4) >= 1.1.0, < 1.0.2o-r0 1.0.2o-r0
alpine/openssl(Alpine:v3.5) >= 1.1.0, < 1.0.2o-r0 1.0.2o-r0
alpine/openssl(Alpine:v3.6) >= 1.1.0, < 1.0.2o-r0 1.0.2o-r0
alpine/openssl(Alpine:v3.7) >= 1.1.0, < 1.0.2o-r0 1.0.2o-r0
alpine/openssl(Alpine:v3.8) >= 1.1.0, < 1.0.2o-r0 1.0.2o-r0
OpenSSL = Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.0h (Affected 1.1.0-1.1.0g) No fix listed

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