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FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:19.openssl
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2006-09-06 21:59:34
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FreeBSD-SA-06:19.openssl                                   
Security Advisory
                                                         
The FreeBSD Project

Topic:          Incorrect PKCS#1 v1.5 padding validation in
crypto(3)

Category:       contrib
Module:         openssl
Announced:      2006-09-06
Affects:        All FreeBSD releases.
Corrected:      2006-09-06 21:18:26 UTC (RELENG_6,
6.1-STABLE)
                2006-09-06 21:19:21 UTC (RELENG_6_1,
6.1-RELEASE-p6)
                2006-09-06 21:20:08 UTC (RELENG_6_0,
6.0-RELEASE-p11)
                2006-09-06 21:20:54 UTC (RELENG_5,
5.5-STABLE)
                2006-09-06 21:21:50 UTC (RELENG_5_5,
5.5-RELEASE-p4)
                2006-09-06 21:22:39 UTC (RELENG_5_4,
5.4-RELEASE-p18)
                2006-09-06 21:23:16 UTC (RELENG_5_3,
5.3-RELEASE-p33)
                2006-09-06 21:24:04 UTC (RELENG_4,
4.11-STABLE)
                2006-09-06 21:24:54 UTC (RELENG_4_11,
4.11-RELEASE-p21)
CVE Name:       CVE-2006-4339

For general information regarding FreeBSD Security
Advisories,
including descriptions of the fields above, security
branches, and the
following sections, please visit
<URL:http://security.fre
ebsd.org/>.

I.   Background

FreeBSD includes software from the OpenSSL Project.  The
OpenSSL Project is
a collaborative effort to develop a robust,
commercial-grade, full-featured,
and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets
Layer (SSL v2/v3)
and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a
full-strength
general purpose cryptography library.

PKCS#1 v1.5 is a standard for "padding" data
before performing a
cryptographic operation using the RSA algorithm.  PKCS#1
v1.5 signatures
are for example used in X.509 certificates.

RSA public keys may use a variety of public exponents, of
which 3, 17, and
65537 are most common.  As a result of a number of known
attacks, most keys
generated recently use a public exponent of at least 65537.

II.  Problem Description

When verifying a PKCS#1 v1.5 signature, OpenSSL ignores any
bytes which
follow the cryptographic hash being signed.  In a valid
signature there
will be no such bytes.

III. Impact

OpenSSL will incorrectly report some invalid signatures as
valid.  When
an RSA public exponent of 3 is used, or more generally when
a small public
exponent is used with a relatively large modulus (e.g., a
public exponent
of 17 with a 4096-bit modulus), an attacker can construct a
signature which
OpenSSL will accept as a valid PKCS#1 v1.5 signature.

IV.  Workaround

No workaround is available.

V.   Solution

Perform one of the following:

1) Upgrade your vulnerable system to 4-STABLE, 5-STABLE, or
6-STABLE,
or to the RELENG_6_1, RELENG_6_0, RELENG_5_5, RELENG_5_4,
RELENG_5_3,
or RELENG_4_11 security branch dated after the correction
date.

2) To patch your present system:

The following patches have been verified to apply to FreeBSD
4.11, 5.3,
5.4, 5.5, 6.0, and 6.1 systems.

a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and
verify the
detached PGP signature using your PGP utility.

# fetch http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-06:19/openssl.p
atch
# fetch http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-06:19/opens
sl.patch.asc

b) Execute the following commands as root:

# cd /usr/src
# patch < /path/to/patch

c) Recompile the operating system as described in
<URL: ht
tp://www.freebsd.org/handbook/makeworld.html> and
reboot the
system.

NOTE: Any third-party applications, including those
installed from the
FreeBSD ports collection, which are statically linked to
libcrypto(3)
should be recompiled in order to use the corrected code.

VI.  Correction details

The following list contains the revision numbers of each
file that was
corrected in FreeBSD.

Branch                                                      
    Revision
  Path
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RELENG_4
  src/crypto/openssl/crypto/rsa/rsa_sign.c                  
 1.1.1.1.2.6
RELENG_4_11
  src/UPDATING                                            
1.73.2.91.2.22
  src/sys/conf/newvers.sh                                 
1.44.2.39.2.25
  src/crypto/openssl/crypto/rsa/rsa_sign.c               
1.1.1.1.2.5.6.1
RELENG_5
  src/crypto/openssl/crypto/rsa/rsa_sign.c                  
 1.1.1.6.4.1
RELENG_5_5
  src/UPDATING                                            
1.342.2.35.2.4
  src/sys/conf/newvers.sh                                  
1.62.2.21.2.6
  src/crypto/openssl/crypto/rsa/rsa_sign.c                  
1.1.1.6.16.1
RELENG_5_4
  src/UPDATING                                           
1.342.2.24.2.27
  src/sys/conf/newvers.sh                                 
1.62.2.18.2.23
  src/crypto/openssl/crypto/rsa/rsa_sign.c                  
 1.1.1.6.8.1
RELENG_5_3
  src/UPDATING                                           
1.342.2.13.2.36
  src/sys/conf/newvers.sh                                 
1.62.2.15.2.38
  src/crypto/openssl/crypto/rsa/rsa_sign.c                  
 1.1.1.6.6.1
RELENG_6
  src/crypto/openssl/crypto/rsa/rsa_sign.c                  
1.1.1.6.10.1
RELENG_6_1
  src/UPDATING                                            
1.416.2.22.2.8
  src/sys/conf/newvers.sh                                  
1.69.2.11.2.8
  src/crypto/openssl/crypto/rsa/rsa_sign.c                  
1.1.1.6.14.1
RELENG_6_0
  src/UPDATING                                            
1.416.2.3.2.16
  src/sys/conf/newvers.sh                                  
1.69.2.8.2.12
  src/crypto/openssl/crypto/rsa/rsa_sign.c                  
1.1.1.6.12.1
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VII. References

http:
//www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20060905.txt
http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg14307.
html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-200
6-4339

The latest revision of this advisory is available at
http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBS
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FreeBSD Update
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2006-09-06 22:44:31
Just a quick heads up: The FreeBSD Update builds for these
latest two advisories
haven't finished yet -- the OpenSSL issue in particular
took us (and everybody
else) by surprise.  Depending upon the version of FreeBSD
you're running, the
binary updates will become available at various times later
today.

Colin Percival

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