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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-2178 Detail

Description

The dsa_sign_setup function in crypto/dsa/dsa_ossl.c in OpenSSL through 1.0.2h does not properly ensure the use of constant-time operations, which makes it easier for local users to discover a DSA private key via a timing side-channel attack.


Metrics

 
NVD enrichment efforts reference publicly available information to associate vector strings. CVSS information contributed by other sources is also displayed.
CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
Base Score:  5.5 MEDIUM
Vector:  CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://eprint.iacr.org/2016/594.pdf CVE, Inc., Red Hat Technical Description  Third Party Advisory 
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10759 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00022.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00023.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00024.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00031.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00005.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00011.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00012.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00013.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00021.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00029.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2017-10/msg00010.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2017-10/msg00011.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-02/msg00032.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1940.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1659.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/31 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160927-openssl CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21995039 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3673 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170322-01-openssl-en CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/08/10 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/08/11 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/08/12 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/08/2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/08/4 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/08/5 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/08/6 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/08/7 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/08/8 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/09/2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/09/8 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2018-3678067.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2018-3236628.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinoct2016-3090547.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91081 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036054 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAPSV CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAPUE CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3087-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3087-2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0193 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0194 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1658 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa132 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1343400 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Patch 
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-412672.pdf CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=399944622df7bd81af62e67ea967c470534090e2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-c05302448 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05302448 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA40312 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10215 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2016-security-releases/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:26.openssl.asc CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-16 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K53084033 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03856en_us CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03856en_us CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/1749-security-advisory-24 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-16 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-20 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-203 Observable Discrepancy cwe source acceptance level NIST  

Known Affected Software Configurations Switch to CPE 2.2

Configuration 1 ( hide )
 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1c:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1d:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1e:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1f:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1g:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1h:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1i:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1j:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1k:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1l:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1m:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1n:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1o:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1p:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1q:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1r:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1s:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1t:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.2a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.2b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.2c:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.2d:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.2e:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.2f:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.2g:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.2h:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Configuration 2 ( hide )
 cpe:2.3:o:oracle:linux:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:o:oracle:linux:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:o:oracle:linux:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Configuration 3 ( hide )
 cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise:12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Configuration 4 ( hide )
 cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
   Show Matching CPE(s) 		From (including)
0.10.0		Up to (excluding)
0.10.47
 cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
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0.12.0		Up to (excluding)
0.12.16
 cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
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4.0.0		Up to (including)
4.1.2
 cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
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4.2.0		Up to (excluding)
4.6.0
 cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
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5.0.0		Up to (excluding)
6.7.0

Configuration 5 ( hide )
 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Configuration 6 ( hide )
 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
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Change History

31 change records found show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-2178
NVD Published Date:
06/19/2016
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.