CVE-2014-3570 in MacOS X

Summary

The BN_sqr implementation in OpenSSL before 0.9.8zd, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0p, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1k does not properly calculate the square of a BIGNUM value, which might make it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via unspecified vectors, related to crypto/bn/asm/mips.pl, crypto/bn/asm/x86_64-gcc.c, and crypto/bn/bn_asm.c.

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Reservation

05/14/2014

Disclosure

01/08/2015

Status

Confirmed

Entries

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ID	Vulnerability	CWE	Exp	Cou	CVE
74744	Apple MacOS X OpenSSL cryptographic issue	310	Not defined	Official fix	CVE-2014-3570
68521	OpenSSL Bignum Square BN_sqr cryptographic issue	310	Unproven	Official fix	CVE-2014-3570

Sources

• MITRE
• NVD
• CVE Details