CVE-2000-1254 Weak cryptography in n/a

What is CVE-2000-1254?

CVE-2000-1254 is a high-severity vulnerability in Openssl Openssl, published on 5 May 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

crypto/rsa/rsa_gen.c in OpenSSL before 0.9.6 mishandles C bitwise-shift operations that exceed the size of an expression, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by leveraging improper RSA key generation on 64-bit HP-UX platforms.

Weakness: CWE-310

Which versions are affected by CVE-2000-1254?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Openssl Openssl.

How do I fix CVE-2000-1254?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2000-1254 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2000-1254 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2016-6309 Use after free in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2016-0799 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 9.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2000-1254, GHSA-m8gw-x5jx-r3vm.