Bug 2180999 (CVE-2023-1672) - CVE-2023-1672 tang: Race condition exists in the key generation and rotation functionality
Summary: CVE-2023-1672 tang: Race condition exists in the key generation and rotation ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-1672
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Depends On: 2182410 2182411 2215313
Blocks: 2181000
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-03-22 20:10 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2024-04-17 17:54 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: tang 14.1
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A race condition exists in the Tang server functionality for key generation and key rotation. This flaw results in a small time window where Tang private keys become readable by other processes on the same host.
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2023:6492 0 None None None 2023-11-07 08:18:14 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2023:7022 0 None None None 2023-11-14 15:18:35 UTC

Description Pedro Sampaio 2023-03-22 20:10:04 UTC 
A race condition exists in the Tang server functionality for key generation and key rotation, which results in a small time window where Tang private keys become readable by other processes on the same host.

References:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2180990
Comment 2 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2023-06-15 13:58:07 UTC 
Created tang tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2215313]
Comment 3 Pedro Sampaio 2023-06-19 13:11:57 UTC 
Upstream fix:

https://github.com/latchset/tang/commit/8dbbed10870378f1b2c3cf3df2ea7edca7617096
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2023-11-07 08:18:13 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2023:6492 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6492
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2023-11-14 15:18:34 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2023:7022 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7022
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