Bug 1023934 - synergy: GCM, CTR and OFB encryption broken
Summary: synergy: GCM, CTR and OFB encryption broken
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1023935 1023936
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-10-28 11:37 UTC by Ratul Gupta
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:09 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: synergy 1.4.14
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:30:47 UTC
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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.
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