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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 12:30:22 +1000
From: Michael Samuel <mik@...net.net>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: [CVE Requests] rsync and librsync collisions
Ok, for rsync you can download colliding blocks (and a brief description) here:
https://github.com/therealmik/rsync-collision
I don't get the feeling that this will be fixed upstream, but a simple
fix would be
to incorporate libdetectcoll from Marc Stevens into rsync, and when a collision
attempt is detected to simply send a data block.
A longer-term would be to just replace MD5 with a collision-resistant hash
function - blake2 is a good fit. The 128-bit output is right on the
edge of being
strong enough.
I submitted a very rough patch which does both, but I haven't had the
time to clean
the rough edges - the libdetectcoll codebase needs a fair amount of cleaning
(printfs etc), and the rsync codebase needs a fair bit of refactor to
handle hash
output lengths > 16 bytes.
Regards,
Michael
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