Bug 1371799 (CVE-2016-6298) - CVE-2016-6298 jwcrypto: million messages attack vulnerability
Summary: CVE-2016-6298 jwcrypto: million messages attack vulnerability
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2016-6298
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1371800
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-08-31 07:10 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:25 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: jwcrypto 0.3
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:57:59 UTC
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Description Martin Prpič 2016-08-31 07:10:05 UTC 
The jwcrypto implementation of the RSA1_5 algorithm is vulnerable to the Million Message Attack described in RFC 3128.

A timing attack can be leveraged against the implementation to detect when a chosed ciphertext generates a valid header and padding because invalid headr/padding generates a code exception and cryptographic operations are terminated earlier resulting in measurably faster processing over the network.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/latchset/jwcrypto/issues/65

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/latchset/jwcrypto/pull/66
Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2016-08-31 07:10:16 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Dennis Detering
Comment 2 Martin Prpič 2016-08-31 07:10:33 UTC 
Created python-jwcrypto tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1371800]
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2016-09-05 17:52:06 UTC 
python-jwcrypto-0.3.2-1.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2016-09-10 01:48:28 UTC 
python-jwcrypto-0.3.2-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2016-09-10 05:20:21 UTC 
python-jwcrypto-0.3.2-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:57:59 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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