CVE-2017-3736

NameCVE-2017-3736
DescriptionThere 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-4017-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
openssl (PTS)buster1.1.1n-0+deb10u3fixed
buster (security)1.1.1n-0+deb10u6fixed
bullseye1.1.1w-0+deb11u1fixed
bullseye (security)1.1.1n-0+deb11u5fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)3.0.11-1~deb12u2fixed
trixie3.1.5-1fixed
sid3.1.5-1.1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
opensslsourcewheezy(not affected)
opensslsourcejessie(not affected)
opensslsourcestretch1.1.0f-3+deb9u1
opensslsource(unstable)1.1.0g-1
openssl1.0sourcestretch1.0.2l-2+deb9u1DSA-4017-1
openssl1.0source(unstable)1.0.2m-1

Notes

[jessie] - openssl <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[wheezy] - openssl <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20171102.txt
Fix for 1.0.2: https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git;a=commit;h=38d600147331d36e74174ebbd4008b63188b321b
Fix for 1.1.0: https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git;a=commit;h=4443cf7aa0099e5ce615c18cee249fff77fb0871

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