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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2016.2841
OpenSSL Security Advisory [10 Nov 2016]
1 December 2016
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: OpenSSL
Publisher: OpenSSL
Operating System: UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Windows
Impact/Access: Access Privileged Data -- Remote/Unauthenticated
Denial of Service -- Remote/Unauthenticated
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2016-7055 CVE-2016-7054 CVE-2016-7053
Reference: ASB-2016.0114
ESB-2016.2770
Original Bulletin:
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20161110.txt
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OpenSSL Security Advisory [10 Nov 2016]
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ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow (CVE-2016-7054)
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Severity: High
TLS connections using *-CHACHA20-POLY1305 ciphersuites are susceptible to a DoS
attack by corrupting larger payloads. This can result in an OpenSSL crash. This
issue is not considered to be exploitable beyond a DoS.
OpenSSL 1.1.0 users should upgrade to 1.1.0c
This issue does not affect OpenSSL versions prior to 1.1.0
This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 25th September 2016 by Robert
Swiecki (Google Security Team), and was found using honggfuzz. The fix
was developed by Richard Levitte of the OpenSSL development team.
CMS Null dereference (CVE-2016-7053)
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Severity: Moderate
Applications parsing invalid CMS structures can crash with a NULL pointer
dereference. This is caused by a bug in the handling of the ASN.1 CHOICE type
in OpenSSL 1.1.0 which can result in a NULL value being passed to the structure
callback if an attempt is made to free certain invalid encodings. Only CHOICE
structures using a callback which do not handle NULL value are affected.
OpenSSL 1.1.0 users should upgrade to 1.1.0c
This issue does not affect OpenSSL versions prior to 1.1.0
This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 12th October 2016 by Tyler Nighswander of
ForAllSecure. The fix was developed by Stephen Henson of the OpenSSL
development team.
Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results (CVE-2016-7055)
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Severity: Low
There is a carry propagating bug in the Broadwell-specific Montgomery
multiplication procedure that handles input lengths divisible by, but
longer than 256 bits. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA, DSA
and DH private keys are impossible. This is because the subroutine in
question is not used in operations with the private key itself and an input
of the attacker's direct choice. Otherwise the bug can manifest itself as
transient authentication and key negotiation failures or reproducible
erroneous outcome of public-key operations with specially crafted input.
Among EC algorithms only Brainpool P-512 curves are affected and one
presumably can attack ECDH key negotiation. Impact was not analyzed in
detail, because pre-requisites for attack are considered unlikely. Namely
multiple clients have to choose the curve in question and the server has to
share the private key among them, neither of which is default behaviour.
Even then only clients that chose the curve will be affected.
OpenSSL 1.1.0 users should upgrade to 1.1.0c
This issue does not affect OpenSSL versions prior to 1.0.2. Due to the low
severity of this defect we are not issuing a new 1.0.2 release at this time.
We recommend that 1.0.2 users wait for the next 1.0.2 release for the fix to
become available. The fix is also available in the OpenSSL git repository in
commit 57c4b9f6a2.
This issue was publicly reported as transient failures and was not
initially recognized as a security issue. Thanks to Richard Morgan for
providing reproducible case. The fix was developed by Andy Polyakov of
the OpenSSL development team.
Note
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As per our previous announcements and our Release Strategy
(https://www.openssl.org/policies/releasestrat.html), support for OpenSSL
version 1.0.1 will cease on 31st December 2016. No security updates for that
version will be provided after that date. Users of 1.0.1 are advised to
upgrade.
Support for versions 0.9.8 and 1.0.0 ended on 31st December 2015. Those
versions are no longer receiving security updates.
References
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URL for this Security Advisory:
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20161110.txt
Note: the online version of the advisory may be updated with additional details
over time.
For details of OpenSSL severity classifications please see:
https://www.openssl.org/policies/secpolicy.html
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