Bug 1298949 (CVE-2016-0475)
| Summary: | CVE-2016-0475 OpenJDK: PBE incorrect key lengths (Libraries, 8138589) | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Tomas Hoger <thoger> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | dbhole, jvanek, sbaiduzh, security-response-team |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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It was discovered that the password-based encryption (PBE) implementation in the Libraries component in OpenJDK used an incorrect key length. This could, in certain cases, lead to generation of keys that were weaker than expected.
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| Last Closed: | 2016-02-02 15:20:56 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 1295699 | ||
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Description
Tomas Hoger
2016-01-15 13:39:03 UTC
Public now via Oracle Critical Patch Update - January 2016. Fixed in Oracle Java SE 8u71. External References: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2016-2367955.html#AppendixJAVA OpenJDK 8 upstream commit: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/jdk/rev/5ea62bb625b6 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2016:0050 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0050.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2016:0049 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0049.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2016:0055 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0055.html Oracle JDK 8u71 has this note related to this change: Problem with PBE algorithms using AES crypto corrected An error was corrected for PBE using 256-bit AES ciphers such that the derived key may be different and not equivalent to keys previously derived from the same password. JDK-8138589 (not public) http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/8u71-relnotes-2773756.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2016:0098 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0098.html |