Bug 771782 (CVE-2012-0027) - CVE-2012-0027 openssl: invalid GOST parameters DoS attack
Summary: CVE-2012-0027 openssl: invalid GOST parameters DoS attack
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2012-0027
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2012-01-04 22:58 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2021-02-24 13:31 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-01-05 09:20:15 UTC
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Description Vincent Danen 2012-01-04 22:58:53 UTC 
Invalid GOST parameters DoS Attack (CVE-2012-0027)
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A malicious TLS client can send an invalid set of GOST parameters
which will cause the server to crash due to lack of error checking.
This could be used in a denial-of-service attack.

Only users of the OpenSSL GOST ENGINE are affected by this bug.

Thanks to Andrey Kulikov <amdeich> for identifying and fixing
this issue.

Affected users should upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.0f.

Reference: http://openssl.org/news/secadv_20120104.txt
Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2012-01-04 23:07:07 UTC 
Seems to be the fix here:

http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=21957
Comment 2 Tomas Mraz 2012-01-05 08:54:03 UTC 
GOST Engine is not being compiled on Fedora and RHEL due to requirement of EC crypto.
Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2012-01-05 09:18:39 UTC 
Additionally, openssl versions in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and earlier do not include GOST at all.
Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2012-01-05 09:20:15 UTC 
Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of openssl as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5 and 6, as they did not include GOST engine support.
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