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
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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: 2023-07-10 15:06 UTC (History)
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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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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.

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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
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