Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:55:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: EnGarde Secure Linux <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]Subject: [ESA-20010709-01] OpenSSL PRNG Weakness
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| EnGarde Secure Linux Security Advisory July 09, 2001 |
| http://www.engardelinux.org/ ESA-20010709-01 |
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| Package: openssl |
| Summary: There is a design weakness in OpenSSL's PRNG. |
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EnGarde Secure Linux is a secure distribution of Linux that features
improved access control, host and network intrusion detection, Web
based secure remote management, complete e-commerce using AllCommerce,
and integrated open source security tools.
OVERVIEW
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A weakness exists in the pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) in all
version of OpenSSL up to and including 0.9.6a. Given knowledge of
past results of PRNG queries an attacker can predict future results.
DETAIL
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There is a design error in OpenSSL's PRNG which can allow an attacker to
determine the internal state of the PRNG. Based on the output of
several hundered 1-byte PRNG requests an attacker can reconstruct the
PRNG's internal state and predict future PRNG output.
The impact of this vulnerability is rather small, as the OpenSSL team
has described:
"It is unlikely for applications to request PRNG bytes in a pattern
allowing for the attack against the OpenSSL PRNG. Typically,
applications will request PRNG bytes in larger chunks.
No applications is known to us which is actually vulnerable."
In any event, we highly recommend that all users upgrade to the latest
openssl packages as outlined in this advisory.
SOLUTION
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All users should upgrade to the most recent version, as outlined in
this advisory.
Guardian Digital recently made available the Guardian Digital Secure
Update, a means to proactively keep systems secure and manage
system software. EnGarde users can automatically update their system
using the Guardian Digital WebTool secure interface.
If choosing to manually upgrade this package, updates can be
obtained from:
ftp://ftp.engardelinux.org/pub/engarde/stable/updates/http://ftp.engardelinux.org/pub/engarde/stable/updates/
Before upgrading the package, the machine must either:
a) be booted into a "standard" kernel; or
b) have LIDS disabled.
To disable LIDS, execute the command:
# /sbin/lidsadm -S -- -LIDS_GLOBAL
To install the updated package, execute the command:
# rpm -Uvh <filename>
To reload the LIDS configuration, execute the command:
# /usr/sbin/config_lids.pl
To re-enable LIDS (if it was disabled), execute the command:
# /sbin/lidsadm -S -- +LIDS_GLOBAL
To verify the signature of the updated packages, execute the command:
# rpm -Kv <filename>
UPDATED PACKAGES
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These updated packages are for EnGarde Secure Linux 1.0.1 (Finestra).
Source Packages:
SRPMS/openssl-0.9.6-1.0.14.src.rpm
MD5 Sum: 420d7e9d0687f313059a64935be6f550
i386 Binary Packages:
i386/openssl-0.9.6-1.0.14.i386.rpm
MD5 Sum: 347000c0645194ab5feb83eb92d2355c
i386/openssl-devel-0.9.6-1.0.14.i386.rpm
MD5 Sum: 09125870402b05ad8ab75d74271893a3
i386/openssl-misc-0.9.6-1.0.14.i386.rpm
MD5 Sum: e865af2f976115e92f99a6ce7fd1cb1b
i386 Binary Packages:
i686/openssl-0.9.6-1.0.14.i686.rpm
MD5 Sum: 4d612208e3952bdb375ad36e614abf98
i686/openssl-devel-0.9.6-1.0.14.i686.rpm
MD5 Sum: 8a1b228357a1fe51a96aeb9afa3981f2
i686/openssl-misc-0.9.6-1.0.14.i686.rpm
MD5 Sum: 1e5eb36c5db32a79dbdfccb3899ae9dc
REFERENCES
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Guardian Digital's public key:
http://ftp.engardelinux.org/pub/engarde/ENGARDE-GPG-KEY
Credit for the discovery of this bug goes to:
Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen <[email protected]>
OpenSSL's Official Web Site:
http://www.openssl.org/
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$Id: ESA-20010709-01-openssl,v 1.2 2001/07/10 15:34:45 rwm Exp rwm $
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Author: Ryan W. Maple, <[email protected]>
Copyright 2001, Guardian Digital, Inc.
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