Bug 1023934

Summary:	synergy: GCM, CTR and OFB encryption broken
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Ratul Gupta <ratulg>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	chkr, matthias
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	synergy 1.4.14	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2019-06-08 02:30:47 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1023935, 1023936
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Description Ratul Gupta 2013-10-28 11:37:05 UTC

Synergy, an application for sharing keyboard and mouse between multiple computers, was found to be having it's GCM, CTR and OFB encryption broken.

It is found that synergy uses their own encryption protocol, and the encryption could be broken using an application: synergy-crack.

The issue is said to be fixed in Synergy 1.4.14.

References:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489482
http://synergy-foss.org/spit/issues/details/3760/

Comment 1 Ratul Gupta 2013-10-28 11:38:23 UTC

Created synergy tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1023935]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 1023936]

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:30:47 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.