Bug 845426 (CVE-2012-3466) - CVE-2012-3466 gnome-keyring: improper caching of passwords/passphrase
Summary: CVE-2012-3466 gnome-keyring: improper caching of passwords/passphrase
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-3466
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: 846904
Blocks: 845428
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-08-03 04:39 UTC by Kurt Seifried
Modified: 2021-02-23 14:10 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: gnome-keyring-3.4.1-3.fc17
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-08-21 07:04:19 UTC
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Debian BTS 683655 0 None None None 2012-08-07 04:37:50 UTC
GNOME Bugzilla 681081 0 None None None 2012-08-07 04:38:10 UTC

Description Kurt Seifried 2012-08-03 04:39:52 UTC 
Julien Cristau <jcristau> reports:

Package: gnome-keyring
Version: 3.4.1-4
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: user security hole

At some point gnome-keyring seemed to obey the configuration asking it
to stop caching passphrases after a while.  It no longer does.

$ gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.crypto.cache
org.gnome.crypto.cache gpg-cache-authorize false
org.gnome.crypto.cache gpg-cache-method 'idle'
org.gnome.crypto.cache gpg-cache-ttl 600

Yet I'm never asked for the passphrase again.

Cheers,
Julien
Comment 1 Kurt Seifried 2012-08-03 05:14:44 UTC 
I have tested this on Fedora 17, trying "idle", "timeout" and "session" int he org.gnome.crypto.cache gpg-cache-method value. The "idle" and "timeout" values do not appear to work as they should, after the timeout I was able to use GPG without entering my password. To test:

gsettings set org.gnome.crypto.cache gpg-cache-method 'idle'
gsettings set org.gnome.crypto.cache gpg-cache-ttl 60

then use gpg/gpg2 to sign something, you should be prompted for your gpg password. Then leave it idle, the session should timeout after 60 seconds. Try signing something again, you are not prompted for the password.
Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-08-09 05:11:27 UTC 
Upstream patches available at:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681081#c14
Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-08-09 05:23:12 UTC 
Created gnome-keyring tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 846904]
Comment 7 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-08-21 07:05:05 UTC 
Statement:

Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of gnome-keyring as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
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