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Medium severity4.7NVD Advisory· Published Jun 15, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-12440

CVE-2018-12440

Description

BoringSSL through 2018-06-14 allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on DSA signatures, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP. To discover a DSA key, the attacker needs access to either the local machine or a different virtual machine on the same physical host.

Affected products

3
  • Google/Boringsslinferred2 versions
    <=2018-06-14+ 1 more
    • (no CPE)range: <=2018-06-14
    • cpe:2.3:a:google:boringssl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=2018-06-14
  • BoringSSL/BoringSSLllm-fuzzy
    Range: <=2018-06-14

Patches

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