Bug 675254 (CVE-2011-0539) - CVE-2011-0539 OpenSSH: legacy certificate generation information leak
Summary: CVE-2011-0539 OpenSSH: legacy certificate generation information leak
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2011-0539
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 718133
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-04 17:59 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2021-02-24 16:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-07-01 14:13:25 UTC
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Description Josh Bressers 2011-02-04 17:59:20 UTC
From the upstream advisory:
http://www.openssh.com/txt/legacy-cert.adv

        When generating legacy *-cert-v00 certificates,
        the nonce field was not being correctly filled with random
        data but was left uninitialised, containing the contents of
        the stack.

        The contents of the stack at this point in ssh-keygen's
        execution do not appear to leak the CA private key or other
        sensitive data, but this possibility cannot be excluded on
        all platforms and library versions.

        If certificates are generated using user-specified contents
        (as opposed to the CA specifying all fields) then they will
        be less resistant to hash collision attacks. Fortunately,
        such attacks are not currently considered practical for the
        SHA family of hashes used to sign these certificates.

This only affected OpenSSH versions 5.6 and 5.7, which Red Hat does not
currently ship.

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2011-07-01 07:01:38 UTC
Created openssh tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-15 [bug 718133]

Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2011-07-01 14:13:25 UTC
Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of openssh as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, or 6.


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