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OpenSSL Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability - CVE-2016-2178 - Vulnerability Database
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OpenSSL Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability - CVE-2016-2178

Medium
Reference: CVE-2016-2178
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2178
Title: OpenSSL Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability
Overview:

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.