usn-3840-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Samuel Weiser discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled DSA signing. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a timing side-channel attack and recover private DSA keys. (CVE-2018-0734)
Samuel Weiser discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled ECDSA signing. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a timing side-channel attack and recover private ECDSA keys. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.10. (CVE-2018-0735)
Billy Bob Brumley, Cesar Pereida Garcia, Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri, and Alejandro Cabrera Aldaya discovered that Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) architectures are vulnerable to side-channel leakage. This issue is known as "PortSmash". An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a timing side-channel attack and recover private keys. (CVE-2018-5407)
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"aliases": [],
"details": "Samuel Weiser discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled DSA signing. An\nattacker could possibly use this issue to perform a timing side-channel\nattack and recover private DSA keys. (CVE-2018-0734)\n\nSamuel Weiser discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled ECDSA signing. An\nattacker could possibly use this issue to perform a timing side-channel\nattack and recover private ECDSA keys. This issue only affected Ubuntu\n18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.10. (CVE-2018-0735)\n\nBilly Bob Brumley, Cesar Pereida Garcia, Sohaib ul Hassan, Nicola Tuveri,\nand Alejandro Cabrera Aldaya discovered that Simultaneous Multithreading\n(SMT) architectures are vulnerable to side-channel leakage. This issue is\nknown as \"PortSmash\". An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform\na timing side-channel attack and recover private keys. (CVE-2018-5407)\n",
"id": "USN-3840-1",
"modified": "2026-04-22T07:36:36Z",
"published": "2018-12-06T17:43:06Z",
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"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3840-1"
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"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-0734"
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"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-0735"
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"schema_version": "1.7.0",
"summary": "openssl, openssl1.0 vulnerabilities",
"upstream": [
"UBUNTU-CVE-2018-0734",
"UBUNTU-CVE-2018-0735",
"UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5407"
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}
Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date | Other |
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Nomenclature
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- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.