Gentoo update for OpenSSL

Published: 2019-03-14 | Updated: 2022-06-24

Risk	Low
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	2
CVE-ID	CVE-2018-5407 CVE-2019-1559
CWE-ID	CWE-208 CWE-327
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	Public exploit code for vulnerability #1 is available.
Vulnerable software	Gentoo Linux Operating systems & Components / Operating system
Vendor	Gentoo

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Side-channel attack

EUVDB-ID: #VU15723

Risk: Low

CVSSv4.0: 3.2 [CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5407

CWE-ID: CWE-208 - Information Exposure Through Timing Discrepancy

Exploit availability: Yes

Description

The vulnerability allows a physical attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to due to execution of engine sharing on SMT (e.g.Hyper-Threading) architectures when improper handling of information by the processor. A physical attacker can construct a timing side channel to hijack information from processes that are running in the same core.

Note: the vulnerability has been dubbed as PortSmash microarchitecture bug.

Mitigation

Update the affected packages.
dev-libs/openssl to version: 1.0.2r

Vulnerable software versions

Gentoo Linux: All versions

CPE2.3

cpe:2.3:o:gentoo:gentoo_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

External links

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-10

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

No. The attacker should have physical access to the system in order to successfully exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability. However, proof of concept for this vulnerability is available.

2) Use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm

EUVDB-ID: #VU17860

Risk: Low

CVSSv4.0: 0.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-1559

CWE-ID: CWE-327 - Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to decrypt sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to the way an application behaves, when it receives a 0-byte record with invalid padding compared to the record with an invalid MAC, which results in padding oracle. A remote attacker can decrypt data.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability requires that the application is using "non-stitched" ciphersuites and calls SSL_shutdown() twice (first, via a BAD_RECORD_MAC and again via a CLOSE_NOTIFY).