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GHSA-9f4v-cw9w-g4cw
GHSA-9f4v-cw9w-g4cw
PUBLISHED
CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 13, 2022
A timing attack flaw was found in OpenSSL 1.0.1u and before that could allow a malicious user with local access to recover ECDSA P-256 private keys.
Risk scores
CVSS 3.0
5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Timeline
- May 13, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch (6 in total, the first dated here)
- Apr 29, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3773 url
- https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1195 url
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1412120 url
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037575 url
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/52 url
- https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/6.0/common/016_libcrypto.patch.sig url
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7056 url
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1802 url
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1801 url
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017:1929 url
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95375 url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7056 advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7056 url
- https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-7056.html url
- https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git;a=commit;h=8aed2a7548362e88e84a7feb795a3a97e8395008 url
- https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8aed2a7548362e88e84a7feb795a3a97e8395008 url
- https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/5.9/common/033_libcrypto.patch.sig url
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-7056 url
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1415 url
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1414 url
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