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CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-8932: Moderate: golang security, bug fix, and enhancement update (CESA-2017:1859)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-8932: Moderate: golang security, bug fix, and enhancement update (CESA-2017:1859)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
07/06/2017
Created
08/29/2019
Added
08/28/2019
Modified
05/25/2023

Description

A bug in the standard library ScalarMult implementation of curve P-256 for amd64 architectures in Go before 1.7.6 and 1.8.x before 1.8.2 causes incorrect results to be generated for specific input points. An adaptive attack can be mounted to progressively extract the scalar input to ScalarMult by submitting crafted points and observing failures to the derive correct output. This leads to a full key recovery attack against static ECDH, as used in popular JWT libraries.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-golang
  • centos-upgrade-golang-bin
  • centos-upgrade-golang-docs
  • centos-upgrade-golang-misc
  • centos-upgrade-golang-src
  • centos-upgrade-golang-tests

References

  • CVE-2017-8932
  • RHSA-2017:1859

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