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Subject: CVS commit: pkgsrc/security/mbedtls
From: Nia Alarie
Date: 2020-02-20 16:27:31
Message id: 20200220152731.E00D1FBF4@cvs.NetBSD.org
Log Message:
mbedtls: Update to 2.16.4
Security
* Fix side channel vulnerability in ECDSA. Our bignum implementation is not
constant time/constant trace, so side channel attacks can retrieve the
blinded value, factor it (as it is smaller than RSA keys and not guaranteed
to have only large prime factors), and then, by brute force, recover the
key. Reported by Alejandro Cabrera Aldaya and Billy Brumley.
* Zeroize local variables in mbedtls_internal_aes_encrypt() and
mbedtls_internal_aes_decrypt() before exiting the function. The value of
these variables can be used to recover the last round key. To follow best
practice and to limit the impact of buffer overread vulnerabilities (like
Heartbleed) we need to zeroize them before exiting the function.
Issue reported by Tuba Yavuz, Farhaan Fowze, Ken (Yihang) Bai,
Grant Hernandez, and Kevin Butler (University of Florida) and
Dave Tian (Purdue University).
* Fix side channel vulnerability in ECDSA key generation. Obtaining precise
timings on the comparison in the key generation enabled the attacker to
learn leading bits of the ephemeral key used during ECDSA signatures and to
recover the private key. Reported by Jeremy Dubeuf.
* Catch failure of AES functions in mbedtls_ctr_drbg_random(). Uncaught
failures could happen with alternative implementations of AES. Bug
reported and fix proposed by Johan Uppman Bruce and Christoffer Lauri,
Sectra.
Bugfix
* Remove redundant line for getting the bitlen of a bignum, since the variable
holding the returned value is overwritten a line after.
Found by irwir in #2377.
* Support mbedtls_hmac_drbg_set_entropy_len() and
mbedtls_ctr_drbg_set_entropy_len() before the DRBG is seeded. Before,
the initial seeding always reset the entropy length to the compile-time
default.
Changes
* Add unit tests for AES-GCM when called through mbedtls_cipher_auth_xxx()
from the cipher abstraction layer. Fixes #2198.
* Clarify how the interface of the CTR_DRBG and HMAC modules relates to
NIST SP 800-90A. In particular CTR_DRBG requires an explicit nonce
to achieve a 256-bit strength if MBEDTLS_ENTROPY_FORCE_SHA256 is set.
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