Bug 170036 - CAN-2005-0109 DSA signing not quite constant time
Summary: CAN-2005-0109 DSA signing not quite constant time
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: openssl
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Tomas Mraz
QA Contact: Brian Brock
URL:
Whiteboard: impact=moderate,source=openssl,public...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-10-06 18:49 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: RHSA-2005-800
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-10-11 15:34:59 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2005:800 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: openssl security update 2005-10-11 04:00:00 UTC

Description Josh Bressers 2005-10-06 18:49:47 UTC 
Upstream has added a fix which ensure that DSA signing computations are constant
time, the previous fix doesn't seem to have been complete:
http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=13440
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-10-06 18:50:58 UTC 
This issue also affects RHEL3 and RHEL2.1
Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-10-11 15:34:59 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-800.html
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