Bug 751800 (CVE-2011-4121) - CVE-2011-4121 ruby (openssl extension): Insecure way of creation exponent value by private RSA key generation
Summary: CVE-2011-4121 ruby (openssl extension): Insecure way of creation exponent val...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2011-4121
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: 2011-11-07 15:52 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-11-07 16:03:45 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-11-07 15:52:26 UTC
A security flaw was found in the way the OpenSSL extension of the Ruby programming language (of version from the Git trunk repository after 2011-09-01 up to 2011-11-03) generated exponent value to be used for private RSA key generation (the bug caused the exponent for the generated key to be always '1'). A remote attacker could use this flaw to bypass / corrupt integrity of services, depending on strong private RSA keys generation mechanism.

Relevant upstream patch:
[1] http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=33633

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-11-07 15:58:55 UTC
CVE Request:
[2] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/07/7

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-11-07 16:03:45 UTC
This issue did NOT affect the versions of the ruby package, as shipped with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6, since those versions directly call RSA_generate_key(3) OpenSSL library routine for RSA key generation:
[3] http://www.openssl.org/docs/crypto/RSA_generate_key.html

rather than to use own, Ruby language / module based, method.

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This issue did NOT affect the versions of the ruby package, as shipped with Fedora release of 14 and 15, since those versions directly call RSA_generate_key(3) OpenSSL library routine for RSA key generation:
[4] http://www.openssl.org/docs/crypto/RSA_generate_key.html

rather than to use own, Ruby language / module based, method.

Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2011-11-07 17:30:56 UTC
This was assigned the name CVE-2011-4121:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/07/8


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