CVE-2015-8618

Description

The Int.Exp Montgomery code in the math/big library in Go 1.5.x before 1.5.3 mishandles carry propagation and produces incorrect output, which makes it easier for attackers to obtain private RSA keys via unspecified vectors.

References

https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/golang-announce/MEATuOi_ei4

https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/17672/

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/13515

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/13/7

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/22/9

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/21/6

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00077.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176179.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175642.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3