Bug 1758704 (CVE-2019-14853) - CVE-2019-14853 python-ecdsa: Unexpected and undocumented exceptions during signature decoding
Summary: CVE-2019-14853 python-ecdsa: Unexpected and undocumented exceptions during s...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2019-14853
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 1760095 1758705 1758706 1762802 1762803 1779461 1807859
Blocks: 1758708
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Reported: 2019-10-04 22:41 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2021-12-14 18:47 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: python-ecdsa 0.13.3
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An error-handling flaw was found in python-ecdsa. During signature decoding, malformed DER signatures could raise unexpected exceptions (or no exceptions at all), which could lead to a denial of service.
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Last Closed: 2021-10-25 09:53:45 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:4702 0 None None None 2021-11-16 14:07:44 UTC

Description Pedro Sampaio 2019-10-04 22:41:10 UTC
A flaw was found in python-ecdsa. Unexpected and undocumented exceptions can be raised during signature decoding may lead to denial of service in some cases. All the versions between at least 0.5 and 0.13.2 are thought to be vulnerable.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/warner/python-ecdsa/issues/114

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/warner/python-ecdsa/pull/115

References:

https://github.com/warner/python-ecdsa/blob/bb359d32e93acc3eb4d216aff4ba0e7531599cfb/ecdsa/keys.py#L98-L113

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2019-10-04 22:42:01 UTC
Created python-ecdsa tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1758706]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1758705]

Comment 2 Hubert Kario 2019-10-07 14:12:00 UTC
Version 0.13.3 of the library, that addresses this issue has been released:
 * https://pypi.org/project/ecdsa/0.13.3/
 * https://github.com/warner/python-ecdsa/releases/tag/python-ecdsa-0.13.3

Comment 15 Doran Moppert 2019-12-10 00:00:58 UTC
Statement:

Although Red Hat OpenStack Platform ships the flawed code, RHOSP does not actually use python-ecdsa's functionality. As such, Red Hat OpenStack Platform will not be providing a fix for python-ecdsa at this time.

Current releases of Red Hat Virtualization Manager no longer includes python-ecdsa as a dependency.  While it remains available in repositories as a legacy dependency, it is not installed by default and its use is not recommended.

Comment 16 Yadnyawalk Tale 2020-01-21 11:45:02 UTC
Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5.9 (4.6), 5.10 (4.7) and 5.11 (5.0) is not affected since we don't ship python-ecdsa. Cloudforms 5.8 (4.5) however vulnerable but unsupported by Red Hat by December 1, 2019.

Comment 17 Yadnyawalk Tale 2020-01-21 11:53:50 UTC
External References:

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pwfw-mgfj-7g3g

Comment 32 errata-xmlrpc 2021-11-16 14:07:42 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite 6.10 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2021:4702 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4702


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