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Zack Miele 2023-07-14 21:05:06 UTC Depends On 2223019, 2223025, 2223018, 2223022, 2223020, 2223023, 2223017, 2223026, 2223021, 2223024
Kazu Yoshida 2023-07-18 05:26:04 UTC CC kyoshida
Sandipan Roy 2023-07-18 10:22:28 UTC CC hhorak, jorton
Sandipan Roy 2023-07-19 04:32:26 UTC CC berrange, bootloader-eng-team, ddepaula, jaredz, jferlan, kraxel, mlewando, pbonzini, pjanda, pjones, pkotvan, rharwood, virt-maint, ymankad
Sandipan Roy 2023-07-19 04:35:31 UTC Depends On 2223822, 2223827, 2223825, 2223821, 2223820, 2223826, 2223824, 2223823
Sandipan Roy 2023-07-19 04:39:26 UTC Summary TRIAGE-CVE-2023-2975 openSSL: AES-SIV cipher implementation contains a bug that causes it to ignore empty associated data entries CVE-2023-2975 openSSL: AES-SIV cipher implementation contains a bug that causes it to ignore empty associated data entries
CC jaredz, mlewando, pjanda, pjones, pkotvan, rharwood
Alias TRIAGE-CVE-2023-2975 CVE-2023-2975
Sandipan Roy 2023-07-19 04:39:49 UTC Summary CVE-2023-2975 openSSL: AES-SIV cipher implementation contains a bug that causes it to ignore empty associated data entries CVE-2023-2975 openssl: AES-SIV cipher implementation contains a bug that causes it to ignore empty associated data entries
Sandipan Roy 2023-07-19 04:45:08 UTC Doc Text A vulnerability was found in OpenSSL. The AES-SIV cipher implementation contains a bug that causes it to ignore empty associated data entries which are unauthenticated as a consequence. Applications that use the AES-SIV algorithm and want to authenticate empty data entries as associated data can be mislead by removing adding or reordering such empty entries as these are ignored by the OpenSSL implementation. The AES-SIV algorithm allows for authentication of multiple associated data entries along with the encryption. To authenticate empty data the application has to call EVP_EncryptUpdate() (or EVP_CipherUpdate()) with NULL pointer as the output buffer and 0 as the input buffer length. The AES-SIV implementation in OpenSSL just returns success for such a call instead of performing the associated data authentication operation. The empty data thus will not be authenticated. As this issue does not affect non-empty associated data authentication and we expect it to be rare for an application to use empty associated data entries this is qualified as Low severity issue.
RaTasha Tillery-Smith 2023-07-19 13:08:29 UTC Doc Text A vulnerability was found in OpenSSL. The AES-SIV cipher implementation contains a bug that causes it to ignore empty associated data entries which are unauthenticated as a consequence. Applications that use the AES-SIV algorithm and want to authenticate empty data entries as associated data can be mislead by removing adding or reordering such empty entries as these are ignored by the OpenSSL implementation. The AES-SIV algorithm allows for authentication of multiple associated data entries along with the encryption. To authenticate empty data the application has to call EVP_EncryptUpdate() (or EVP_CipherUpdate()) with NULL pointer as the output buffer and 0 as the input buffer length. The AES-SIV implementation in OpenSSL just returns success for such a call instead of performing the associated data authentication operation. The empty data thus will not be authenticated. As this issue does not affect non-empty associated data authentication and we expect it to be rare for an application to use empty associated data entries this is qualified as Low severity issue. A vulnerability was found in OpenSSL. The AES-SIV cipher implementation contains a bug that causes it to ignore empty associated data entries, which are unauthenticated as a consequence. Applications that use the AES-SIV algorithm and want to authenticate empty data entries as associated data can be misled by removing, adding, or reordering such empty entries as these are ignored by the OpenSSL implementation. The AES-SIV algorithm allows for the authentication of multiple associated data entries and encryption. To authenticate empty data, the application has to call EVP_EncryptUpdate() (or EVP_CipherUpdate()) with a NULL pointer as the output buffer and 0 as the input buffer length. The AES-SIV implementation in OpenSSL returns success for such a call instead of performing the associated data authentication operation. Thus, the empty data will not be authenticated.

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