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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:10:26 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: gnome-keyring does not discard stored secrets
in some cases
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On 01/16/2013 10:27 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Kurt Seifried:
>
>>> 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.
>
> I think the clearest part is
> <https://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/SecurityPhilosophy>, which
> proclaims:
>
> | * Try to keep your secrets from being swapped out or otherwise |
> written to disk. | * Hunkering down and discarding all secrets when
> your computer is | locked.
>
> The documentation for gnome_keyring_lock_all_sync
> <http://developer.gnome.org/gnome-keyring/unstable/gnome-keyring-Keyrings.html#gnome-keyring-lock-all-sync>
>
>
says:
>
> | Lock all the keyrings, so that their contents may not eb
> accessed | without first unlocking them with a password.
>
> In addition,
> <http://developer.gnome.org/gnome-keyring/unstable/gnome-keyring-Non-pageable-Memory.html>
>
>
suggests that locked memory is never written to disk. This is not
> true with hibernation.
Perfect that's exactly what I needed to know. Please use CVE-2012-6111
for this issue.
- --
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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