Issue summary: The AES-SIV cipher implementation contains a bug that causes it to ignore empty associated data entries which are unauthenticated as a consequence. Impact summary: Applications that use the AES-SIV algorithm and want to authenticate empty data entries as associated data can be mislead by removing adding or reordering such empty entries as these are ignored by the OpenSSL implementation. We are currently unaware of any such applications. The AES-SIV algorithm allows for authentication of multiple associated data entries along with the encryption. To authenticate empty data the application has to call EVP_EncryptUpdate() (or EVP_CipherUpdate()) with NULL pointer as the output buffer and 0 as the input buffer length. The AES-SIV implementation in OpenSSL just returns success for such a call instead of performing the associated data authentication operation. The empty data thus will not be authenticated. As this issue does not affect non-empty associated data authentication and we expect it to be rare for an application to use empty associated data entries this is qualified as Low severity issue. https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=6a83f0c958811f07e0d11dfc6b5a6a98edfd5bdc https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230714.txt https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=00e2f5eea29994d19293ec4e8c8775ba73678598 This has not been included in a specific release but has been added to the master, 3.1, and 3.0 branches https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/21384
Created mingw-openssl tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-37 [bug 2223822] Affects: fedora-38 [bug 2223825] Created openssl tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-37 [bug 2223823] Affects: fedora-38 [bug 2223826] Created openssl1.1 tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-37 [bug 2223824] Affects: fedora-38 [bug 2223827] Created openssl11 tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: epel-7 [bug 2223820] Created openssl3 tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: epel-8 [bug 2223821]
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Via RHSA-2024:2447 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2447