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@@ -9,6 +9,19 @@ Changes between 1.0.2p and 1.0.2q [xx XXX xxxx] + *) Microarchitecture timing vulnerability in ECC scalar multiplication + + OpenSSL ECC scalar multiplication, used in e.g. ECDSA and ECDH, has been + shown to be vulnerable to a microarchitecture timing side channel attack. + An attacker with sufficient access to mount local timing attacks during + ECDSA signature generation could recover the private key. + + This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 26th October 2018 by Alejandro + Cabrera Aldaya, Billy Brumley, Sohaib ul Hassan, Cesar Pereida Garcia and + Nicola Tuveri. + (CVE-2018-5407) + [Billy Brumley] + *) Resolve a compatibility issue in EC_GROUP handling with the FIPS Object Module, accidentally introduced while backporting security fixes from the development branch and hindering the use of ECC in FIPS mode. |