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FreeBSD: VID-A5956603-7E4F-11EE-9DF6-84A93843EB75 (CVE-2023-5678): OpenSSL -- DoS in DH generation

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FreeBSD: VID-A5956603-7E4F-11EE-9DF6-84A93843EB75 (CVE-2023-5678): OpenSSL -- DoS in DH generation

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/06/2023
Created
11/14/2023
Added
11/09/2023
Modified
11/23/2023

Description

Issue summary: Generating excessively long X9.42 DH keys or checking

excessively long X9.42 DH keys or parameters may be very slow.

Impact summary: Applications that use the functions DH_generate_key() to

generate an X9.42 DH key may experience long delays. Likewise, applications

that use DH_check_pub_key(), DH_check_pub_key_ex() or EVP_PKEY_public_check()

to check an X9.42 DH key or X9.42 DH parameters may experience long delays.

Where the key or parameters that are being checked have been obtained from

an untrusted source this may lead to a Denial of Service.

While DH_check() performs all the necessary checks (as of CVE-2023-3817),

DH_check_pub_key() doesn't make any of these checks, and is therefore

vulnerable for excessively large P and Q parameters.

Likewise, while DH_generate_key() performs a check for an excessively large

P, it doesn't check for an excessively large Q.

An application that calls DH_generate_key() or DH_check_pub_key() and

supplies a key or parameters obtained from an untrusted source could be

vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack.

DH_generate_key() and DH_check_pub_key() are also called by a number of

other OpenSSL functions. An application calling any of those other

functions may similarly be affected. The other functions affected by this

are DH_check_pub_key_ex(), EVP_PKEY_public_check(), and EVP_PKEY_generate().

Also vulnerable are the OpenSSL pkey command line application when using the

"-pubcheck" option, as well as the OpenSSL genpkey command line application.

The OpenSSL SSL/TLS implementation is not affected by this issue.

The OpenSSL 3.0 and 3.1 FIPS providers are not affected by this issue.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-openssl
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-openssl-quictls
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-openssl111
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-openssl31
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-openssl31-quictls

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