CVE-2017-3736

Description

There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring procedure in OpenSSL before 1.0.2m and 1.1.0 before 1.1.0g. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just feasible (although very difficult) because most of the work necessary to deduce information about a private key may be performed offline. The amount of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers. An attacker would additionally need online access to an unpatched system using the target private key in a scenario with persistent DH parameters and a private key that is shared between multiple clients. This only affects processors that support the BMI1, BMI2 and ADX extensions like Intel Broadwell (5th generation) and later or AMD Ryzen.

How to fix CVE-2017-3736

To remediate CVE-2017-3736, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 1.0.2m-r0 or later
• —upgrade to 1.1.0g-1 or later

Is CVE-2017-3736 being exploited?

Moderate — EPSS is 8.3%. Track this CVE but it's not at the top of the prioritisation list.

Affected packages (2)

• from 0, < 1.0.2m-r0
• from 0, < 1.1.0g-1

CVSS scores

References (2)

• ADVISORYsecurity.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-3736
• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-3736