Bug 1534762 (CVE-2018-2618) - CVE-2018-2618 OpenJDK: insufficient strength of key agreement (JCE, 8185292)
Summary: CVE-2018-2618 OpenJDK: insufficient strength of key agreement (JCE, 8185292)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-2618
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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Blocks: 1528235
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Reported: 2018-01-15 21:59 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2021-03-11 16:55 UTC (History)
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It was discovered that the key agreement implementations in the JCE component of OpenJDK did not guarantee sufficient strength of used keys to adequately protect generated shared secret. This could make it easier to break data encryption by attacking key agreement rather than the encryption using the negotiated secret.
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Last Closed: 2018-03-14 15:38:51 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:0095 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: java-1.8.0-openjdk security update 2018-01-17 22:33:04 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:0099 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: java-1.8.0-oracle security update 2018-01-19 02:55:29 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:0100 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: java-1.7.0-oracle security update 2018-01-19 02:55:56 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:0115 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: java-1.6.0-sun security update 2018-01-23 01:40:50 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:0349 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: java-1.7.0-openjdk security update 2018-02-27 03:27:34 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:0351 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: java-1.8.0-ibm security update 2018-02-27 02:32:17 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:0352 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: java-1.8.0-ibm security update 2018-02-27 02:37:30 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:0458 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: java-1.7.1-ibm security update 2018-03-07 15:33:13 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:0521 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: java-1.7.1-ibm security update 2018-03-14 19:23:31 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:1463 0 None None None 2018-05-15 15:31:52 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:1812 0 None None None 2018-06-07 16:05:15 UTC

Description Tomas Hoger 2018-01-15 21:59:42 UTC 
It was discovered that the DHKeyAgreement and P11KeyAgreement implementations in the JCE component of OpenJDK did not guarantee sufficient strength of used keys to adequately protect generated shared secret.  This could make it easier to break encryption by attacking key agreement rather than the encryption using the negotiated key.

The patch for this issue causes classes' method generateSecret(String algorithm) to fail unless it's call for "TlsPremasterSecret", or the "jdk.crypto.KeyAgreement.legacyKDF" system property is set to true.
Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2018-01-16 19:53:08 UTC 
The following note related to this change can be found in the release notes for Oracle Java SE 8u161, 7u171, and 6u181:

  security-libs/javax.crypto
  Stricter key generation 

  The generateSecret(String) method has been mostly disabled in the
  javax.crypto.KeyAgreement services of the SUN and SunPKCS11 providers.
  Invoking this method for these providers will result in a
  NoSuchAlgorithmException for most algorithm string arguments. The previous
  behavior of this method can be re-enabled by setting the value of the
  jdk.crypto.KeyAgreement.legacyKDF system property to true (case
  insensitive). Re-enabling this method by setting this system property is
  not recommended.

  JDK-8185292 (not public)

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/8u161-relnotes-4021379.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaseproducts/documentation/javase7supportreleasenotes-1601161.html#R170_171
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/overview-156328.html#R160_181
Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2018-01-16 21:33:48 UTC 
Public now via Oracle CPU January 2018:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2018-3236628.html#AppendixJAVA

The issue was fixed in Oracle JDK 9.0.4, 8u161, 7u171, and 6u181.
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2018-01-17 17:35:05 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:0095 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0095
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2018-01-18 21:57:49 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2018:0099 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0099
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2018-01-18 22:00:36 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2018:0100 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0100
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2018-01-22 20:42:20 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2018:0115 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0115
Comment 7 Tomas Hoger 2018-01-23 13:02:35 UTC 
OpenJDK-8 upstream commit:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/jdk/rev/9b819798e7b0
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2018-02-26 21:32:53 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Supplementary

Via RHSA-2018:0351 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0351
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2018-02-26 21:38:02 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary

Via RHSA-2018:0352 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0352
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2018-02-26 22:21:30 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:0349 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0349
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2018-03-07 10:33:51 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Supplementary

Via RHSA-2018:0458 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0458
Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2018-03-14 15:24:14 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary

Via RHSA-2018:0521 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0521
Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2018-05-15 15:31:48 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite 5.8

Via RHSA-2018:1463 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1463
Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2018-06-07 16:05:08 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite 5.6
  Red Hat Satellite 5.7

Via RHSA-2018:1812 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1812
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