Bug 2280418 (CVE-2024-28285)

Summary:	CVE-2024-28285 cryptopp: potential leak of secret key of ElGamal encryption via fault injection
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Robb Gatica <rgatica>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Description Robb Gatica 2024-05-14 23:05:42 UTC

A Fault Injection vulnerability in the SymmetricDecrypt function in cryptopp/elgamal.h of Cryptopp Crypto++ 8.9, allows an attacker to co-reside in the same system with a victim process to disclose information and escalate privileges.

https://gist.github.com/liang-junkai/3e91f58070812ea76c1b8c126c3e28c7
https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/issues/1262

Comment 1 Robb Gatica 2024-05-14 23:05:59 UTC

Created cryptopp tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2280419]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2280420]