Bug 1228607 (CVE-2015-1792) - CVE-2015-1792 OpenSSL: CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function
Summary: CVE-2015-1792 OpenSSL: CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-1792
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: Engineering1228618 Engineering1228619 Engineering1228620 Engineering1228621 1231051
Blocks: Embargoed1227577
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Reported: 2015-06-05 10:18 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 09:33 UTC (History)
17 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
A denial of service flaw was found in the way OpenSSL verified certain signed messages using CMS (Cryptographic Message Syntax). A remote attacker could cause an application using OpenSSL to use excessive amounts of memory by sending a specially crafted message for verification.
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:41:46 UTC

Attachments (Terms of Use)
Proposed patch for CVE-2015-1792 (489 bytes, patch)
2015-06-05 10:32 UTC, Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 		no flags Details | Diff
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:1115 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: openssl security update 2015-06-16 00:48:46 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-06-05 10:18:21 UTC 
The following was reported by OpenSSL upstream:

When verifying a signedData message the CMS code can enter an infinite loop if presented with an unknown hash function OID.

This can be used to perform denial of service against any system which verifies signedData messages using the CMS code.

This issue affects all current OpenSSL versions: 1.0.2, 1.0.1, 1.0.0 and 0.9.8.

OpenSSL 1.0.2 users should upgrade to 1.0.2b
OpenSSL 1.0.1 users should upgrade to 1.0.1n
OpenSSL 1.0.0 users should upgrade to 1.0.0s
OpenSSL 0.9.8 users should upgrade to 0.9.8zg

This issue was reported to OpenSSL on 31st March 2015 by Johannes Bauer. The fix was developed by Dr. Stephen Henson of the OpenSSL development team.


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the OpenSSL project for reporting this issue.
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-06-05 10:32:09 UTC 
Created attachment 1035154 [details]
Proposed patch for CVE-2015-1792
Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-06-12 04:16:28 UTC 
Public via:

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20150611.txt

Upstream commits:

OpenSSL-1.0.1:
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/dd90a91d8771fd1ad5083fd46a2b3da16a587757

OpenSSL-0.9.8:
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/92f9a8bf3844359bb50d86dab92bc24b074d350d
Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-06-12 05:56:06 UTC 
Created openssl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1231051]
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2015-06-15 20:49:21 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:1115 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1115.html
Comment 7 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-06-16 01:35:58 UTC 
Statement:

This issue does NOT affect the version of OpenSSL package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2015-06-21 00:19:12 UTC 
openssl-1.0.1k-10.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2015-06-24 15:57:39 UTC 
openssl-1.0.1k-10.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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