# CVE-2014-3570: 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

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 4 GitHub repos listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2015-01-09 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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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## References

- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142895206924048&w=2
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00021.html
- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20150310-ssl
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142720981827617&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144050155601375&w=2
- https://support.apple.com/HT204659
- https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/a7a44ba55cb4f884c6bc9ceac90072dea38e66d0
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2016-2881720.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2015-2367953.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143748090628601&w=2
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0849.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148363.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033378
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142721102728110&w=2
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00011.html
- https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20150108.txt
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:019
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2015-2365600.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71939
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10679
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00037.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0066.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142496289803847&w=2
- https://github.com/uthrasri/CVE-2014-3570
- https://github.com/uthrasri/CVE-2014-3570_G2.5_openssl_no_patch
- https://github.com/uthrasri/Openssl_G2.5_CVE-2014-3570_01
- https://github.com/uthrasri/openssl_G2.5_CVE-2014-3570

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