Bug 488594 - dkim-milter: DNS public key DoS
Summary: dkim-milter: DNS public key DoS
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
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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Depends On: 488595
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-03-04 21:16 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:29 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-03-22 01:13:32 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Upstream patch to fix the issue (4.75 KB, patch)
2009-03-04 21:17 UTC, Vincent Danen
no flags Details | Diff

Description Vincent Danen 2009-03-04 21:16:42 UTC
dkim-milter does not properly handle verification of messages signed with a key that has been revoked in DNS (the p= flag set to an empty string).

References:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/01/1
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2508602&group_id=139420&atid=744358
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1728

A CVE has been requested, but not assigned yet.

This has been fixed upstream in 2.8.1, which is shipped in F10, but F9 has 2.5.1 which would be vulnerable to this issue.

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2009-03-04 21:16:57 UTC
Created dkim-milter tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: F9 [bug #488595]

Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2009-03-04 21:17:36 UTC
Created attachment 334070 [details]
Upstream patch to fix the issue

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2009-03-04 23:27:23 UTC
dkim-milter-2.8.1-1.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dkim-milter-2.8.1-1.fc9

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2009-03-05 16:26:53 UTC
dkim-milter-2.8.1-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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