Bug 1528312 (CVE-2017-17805)
| Summary: | CVE-2017-17805 kernel: Salsa20 encryption algorithm does not correctly handle zero-length inputs allowing local attackers to cause denial-of-service | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Adam Mariš <amaris> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | airlied, ajax, aquini, bhu, blc, bskeggs, dhoward, dominik.mierzejewski, ewk, fhrbata, hdegoede, hkrzesin, hwkernel-mgr, iboverma, ichavero, itamar, jarodwilson, jforbes, jglisse, jkacur, john.j5live, jonathan, josef, jross, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, labbott, lgoncalv, linville, matt, mchehab, mcressma, mjg59, mlangsdo, nmurray, plougher, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, skozina, slawomir, steved, vdronov, williams, yozone |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | kernel 4.14.8 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: |
The Salsa20 encryption algorithm in the Linux kernel, before 4.14.8, does not correctly handle zero-length inputs. This allows a local attacker the ability to use the AF_ALG-based skcipher interface to cause a denial of service (uninitialized-memory free and kernel crash) or have an unspecified other impact by executing a crafted sequence of system calls that use the blkcipher_walk API. Both the generic implementation (crypto/salsa20_generic.c) and x86 implementation (arch/x86/crypto/salsa20_glue.c) of Salsa20 are vulnerable.
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| Last Closed: | 2019-06-08 03:34:41 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1528337, 1528342, 1543980, 1543981, 1543982, 1543983, 1543984, 1740280, 1740281, 1740282 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1528313 | ||
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Description
Adam Mariš
2017-12-21 14:09:56 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1528337] This was fixed for Fedora with the 4.14.8 stable updates. Statement: This issue does not affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as the code with the flaw is not present in the products listed. This issue affects the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, its real-time kernel, Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for ARM 64, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for Power 9 LE. Future Linux kernel updates for the respective releases may address this issue. This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2018:3083 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3083 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2018:3096 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3096 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2018:2948 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2948 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2019:2473 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2473 |