SB2019031407 - Gentoo update for OpenSSL

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SB2019031407 - Gentoo update for OpenSSL

Published: March 14, 2019 Updated: June 24, 2022

Security Bulletin ID SB2019031407
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Information disclosure

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Side-channel attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5407)

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.


2) Use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-1559)

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). 



Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References