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CVE-2006-2940

Published: 9/28/2006 Last updated: 8/7/2024 Reserved: 6/9/2006

OpenSSL 0.9.7 before 0.9.7l, 0.9.8 before 0.9.8d, and earlier versions allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via parasitic public keys with large (1) "public exponent" or (2) "public modulus" values in X.509 certificates that require extra time to process when using RSA signature verification.

CNA assigner: redhat (53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749) Requested by: n/a

Opam packages affected (6)

conf-libcurl conf-libssl conf-mingw-w64-openssl-i686 conf-mingw-w64-openssl-x86_64 conf-openssl conf-srt-openssl

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
n/a n/a <= *

References (296)