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authormancha <mancha1@hush.com>2014-03-27 00:55:08 +0000
committerDr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org>2014-03-27 00:55:08 +0000
commitfff69a7d8c38b5a391e7d71b0b51999003dd1e8f (patch)
tree39cb0a786f6c9f707562d39585b142af1364de18 /CHANGES
parenta375025e4dd58a05e926a5384774a85671695dd9 (diff)
Fix for CVE-2014-0076 backported to 0.9.8 branch
Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack" by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from: http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140 Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix. Thanks for mancha for backporting the fix to OpenSSL 0.9.8 branch.
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Changes between 0.9.8y and 0.9.8za [xx XXX xxxx]
+ *) Fix for the attack described in the paper "Recovering OpenSSL
+ ECDSA Nonces Using the FLUSH+RELOAD Cache Side-channel Attack"
+ by Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger. Details can be obtained from:
+ http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/140
+
+ Thanks to Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger for discovering this
+ flaw and to Yuval Yarom for supplying a fix (CVE-2014-0076)
+ [Yuval Yarom and Naomi Benger]
+
+ Thanks to mancha for backporting the fix to the 0.9.8 branch.
+
*) Fix handling of warning-level alerts in SSL23 client mode so they
don't cause client-side termination (eg. on SNI unrecognized_name
warnings). Add client and server support for six additional alerts