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Bug 985509 - p11-kit: potential hash collision denial of service
Summary: p11-kit: potential hash collision denial of service
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: p11-kit
Version: 6.5
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Stef Walter
QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team
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Blocks: 983512
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-07-17 16:04 UTC by Florian Weimer
Modified: 2013-07-17 16:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-07-17 16:11:33 UTC
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Description Florian Weimer 2013-07-17 16:04:24 UTC
Murmurhash 3 is broken even with a randomized seed (but the seed is constant in p11-kit, ahem).  This means that its use in the dict implementation is either way overkill, or exposes the code to a denial-of-service issue.  unsigned long/int hashing is collision-prone, too, because it doesn't use a key and actually isn't very hash-like at all.

This isn't a problem as long as the hashes are small, so feel free to close this bug if the hash tables are small.

Comment 1 Stef Walter 2013-07-17 16:11:33 UTC
p11-kit does not hash data from outside of the security context it is run in. So I don't think this is an issue. Denial-of-service would be against self, which cannot be protected against. I'll close this bug, but if I'm wrong, please do reopen.


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