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HIGH

security flaw

Published Mar 21, 2003

Description

The SSL and TLS components for OpenSSL 0.9.6i and earlier, 0.9.7, and 0.9.7a allow remote attackers to perform an unauthorized RSA private key operation via a modified Bleichenbacher attack that uses a large number of SSL or TLS connections using PKCS #1 v1.5 padding that cause OpenSSL to leak information regarding the relationship between ciphertext and the associated plaintext, aka the "Klima-Pokorny-Rosa attack."

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat statement

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 are not vulnerable to this issue as they both contain a backported patch.

Metrics

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (27)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Mar 21, 2003
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved Mar 13, 2003
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Important
Public date Mar 19, 2003