CVE-2023-2975 and CVE-2023-3446 (Open SSL Security Advisory on July 2023) impact on PIM/PAMSC
Article ID: 270182
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Issue/Introduction
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230714.txt
AES-SIV implementation ignores empty associated data entries (CVE-2023-2975)
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Severity: Low
Issue summary: The AES-SIV cipher implementation contains a bug that causes
it to ignore empty associated data entries which are unauthenticated as
a consequence.
Impact summary: Applications that use the AES-SIV algorithm and want to
authenticate empty data entries as associated data can be misled by removing,
adding or reordering such empty entries as these are ignored by the OpenSSL
implementation. We are currently unaware of any such applications.
The AES-SIV algorithm allows for authentication of multiple associated
data entries along with the encryption. To authenticate empty data the
application has to call EVP_EncryptUpdate() (or EVP_CipherUpdate()) with
NULL pointer as the output buffer and 0 as the input buffer length.
The AES-SIV implementation in OpenSSL just returns success for such a call
instead of performing the associated data authentication operation.
The empty data thus will not be authenticated.
As this issue does not affect non-empty associated data authentication and
we expect it to be rare for an application to use empty associated data
entries this is qualified as Low severity issue.
OpenSSL versions 3.0.0 to 3.0.9, and 3.1.0 to 3.1.1 are vulnerable to this
issue. The FIPS provider is not affected as the AES-SIV algorithm is not
FIPS approved and FIPS provider does not implement it.
OpenSSL versions 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are not affected by this issue.
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https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230719.txt
Excessive time spent checking DH keys and parameters (CVE-2023-3446)
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Severity: Low
Issue summary: Checking excessively long DH keys or parameters may be very slow.
Impact summary: Applications that use the functions DH_check(), DH_check_ex()
or EVP_PKEY_param_check() to check a DH key or 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.
The function DH_check() performs various checks on DH parameters. One of those
checks confirms that the modulus ("p" parameter) is not too large. Trying to use
a very large modulus is slow and OpenSSL will not normally use a modulus which
is over 10,000 bits in length.
However the DH_check() function checks numerous aspects of the key or parameters
that have been supplied. Some of those checks use the supplied modulus value
even if it has already been found to be too large.
An application that calls DH_check() and supplies a key or parameters obtained
from an untrusted source could be vulernable to a Denial of Service attack.
The function DH_check() is itself 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_ex() and
EVP_PKEY_param_check().
Also vulnerable are the OpenSSL dhparam and pkeyparam command line applications
when using the "-check" option.
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.
OpenSSL 3.1, 3.0, 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are vulnerable to this issue.
Environment
Release : 12.8
Resolution
we are using the openssl (1.0.2f for windows and for Linux we are using the OS provided openssl version) only for the creation of activemq certificate.
So, these vulnerabilities do not affect the product.
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