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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:19:34 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: gnome-keyring does not discard stored secrets
in some cases
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On 01/11/2013 02:36 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 01/11/2013 08:38 AM, Kurt Seifried wrote:
>> On 01/10/2013 11:45 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>> I had trouble finding a caller of this function, but the
>>> submitter indicated that gnome-power-manager uses it in older
>>> versions:
>>>
>>> <http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-power-manager/tree/src/gpm-control.c?h=gnome-2-32#n162>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
I'm not sure if this needs a CVE, but it's probably worth fixing
>>> anyway.
>>
>> What security violation occurs/what trust boundary is crossed?
>
> I think the expectation was that key material is discarded on
> suspend/hibernate. This seems quite desirable for hibernate
> without encrypted swap.
>
> I've verified that Fedora 17 (GNOME 3.4) does not discard cached
> keys on suspend and hibernate, either. (Swap is encrypted, though,
> at least I selected that in the installer.) However, I suspect
> that users expect that suspend (but perhaps not hibernate) does not
> discard keys.
Just to confirm, is this behavior documented at all in the gnome
keyring documentation (e.g. that it does or doesn't do it)? Thanks.
- --
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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