CVE-2000-1254

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-05-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-310

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.

Affected products

OpenSSL: through 0.9.5

References

http://marc.info/?l=openssl-users&m=95961024500509
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21995039
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/04/17
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90109
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035750
https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=db82b8f9bd432a59aea8e1014694e15fc457c2bb
http://marc.info/?l=openssl-users&m=95961024500509
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21995039
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/04/17
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90109
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035750
https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=db82b8f9bd432a59aea8e1014694e15fc457c2bb

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