Bug 908425 (CVE-2013-1622)

Summary:	CVE-2013-1622 polarssl: improper MAC check if sanity check fails leads to DoS
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	mads
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	polarssl 1.2.5	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2013-02-28 01:20:59 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	907982
Bug Blocks:	907592

Description Vincent Danen 2013-02-06 16:49:04 UTC

In addition to the fix for CVE-2013-0169, PolarSSL 1.2.5 corrects the following problem:

"PolarSSL ... it does not perform any MAC check if this
sanity check fails, but instead exits immediately. This would
render the implementation vulnerable to a simple timing-based
distinguishing attack." (requires a non-default configuration with
"TLS alert messages when decryption errors are encountered")

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2013-02-06 16:51:23 UTC

Created polarssl tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 907982]

Comment 2 Mads Kiilerich 2013-02-28 01:20:59 UTC

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1622 says
** REJECT ** DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER.
ConsultIDs: none.
Reason: This candidate is not a security issue. Further investigation showed that, because of RFC noncompliance, no version or configuration of the product had the vulnerability previously associated with this ID.
Notes: none.