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List:       oss-security
Subject:    [oss-security] Re: MatrixSSL Bignum bugs
From:       cve-assign () mitre ! org
Date:       2016-08-19 13:49:59
Message-ID: 20160819134959.E8FB8332027 () smtpvbsrv1 ! mitre ! org
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> http://www.matrixssl.org/blog/releases/matrixssl_3_8_4

>> several issues related to RSA and bignum operations


> If one tries to calculate a modular
> exponentiation with the base zero (0^b mod a, code) it would crash with
> an invalid free operation, potentially leading to memory corruption.
> https://github.com/hannob/bignum-fuzz/blob/master/matrixssl-base-zero.c

>> Testing MatrixSSL's pstm_exptmod with base zero

Use CVE-2016-6885.


> a malicious client could simply send a zero or the key's modulus here. I
> created a patch against openssl that allows to test this. Both values
> crash the MatrixSSL server. However the crash seems not to happen in
> pstm_exptmod(), it hits another bug earlier. In both cases the crash
> happens due to an invalid memory read in the function pstm_reverse(),
> which is not prepared for zero-sized inputs and will underflow the len
> variable.
> https://github.com/hannob/bignum-fuzz/blob/master/openssl-break-rsa-values.diff

>> This patch allows one to send malformed RSA encryptions during the handshake.
>> One can either send zeros or the RSA key modulus. Both trigger a bug in
>> MatrixSSL 3.8.3.

As far as we can tell, here you are reporting a crash issue that is not
identical to the "exponentiation with the base zero" issue.

Use CVE-2016-6886.


> Fortunately this was discovered before the change made it into a
> release.
> https://lists.lysator.liu.se/pipermail/nettle-bugs/2016/003104.html

>> I'm considering the below patch

>>> https://lists.lysator.liu.se/pipermail/nettle-bugs/2016/003099.html
>>> Committed and pushed now

There is no CVE ID for this "crashes with a floating point error"
behavior that existed in the https://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle
code as of approximately 2016-07-17 through 2016-07-31. The Nettle
documentation at https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/ doesn't
specifically recommend that people ship unreleased Nettle code. A CVE
ID isn't, in general, required for each issue noted at any arbitrary
point during development.


> I was able to identify an input value that caused a
> wrong calculation result.
> 
> They now restrict the input to the pstm_exptmod()
> function to a set of bit sizes (512, 1024, 1536, 2048, 3072, 4096). My
> test input had a different bit size

As far as we can tell, a "wrong calculation result" is not always a
vulnerability on its own, and sometimes becomes relevant only when
there is a composite with another issue. However, the set of other
issues is not fully specified and thus we are assigning a CVE ID to
the "wrong calculation result" itself in this specific case.

Use CVE-2016-6887.

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