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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:59:21 -0500
From: Nick Semenkovich <nick@...enkovich.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: nss RSA forgery (CVE-2014-1568)
The commits are available in the mercurial repo:
https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/fb7208e91ae8
https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/ad411fb64046
https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/4e90910ad2f9
Offhand, it looks like an issue with the encoding of DigestInfo.
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Hanno Böck <hanno@...eck.de> wrote:
>
> One serious vuln per day isn't enough, so nss decided to bring us
> another one.
>
> Mozilla reports this:
> https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-73.html
> Bugtracker entry still private, so hard to judge about details.
> Interesting: Two independent discoveries (we had the same with
> heartbleed and I couldn't believe this was coincidence).
>
> This is what mcaffee has to say:
> http://blogs.mcafee.com/executive-perspectives/need-know-berserk-mozilla
>
> They say its related to BER/ASN1-parsing, but adam langley disagrees:
> https://twitter.com/agl__/status/514881918110683136
>
>
> And it seems cyassl had something similar, also found by intel:
> http://www.yassl.com/yaSSL/Blog/Entries/2014/9/12_CyaSSL_3.2.0_Released.html
>
> No real details yet and information seems confusing.
>
> --
> Hanno Böck
> http://hboeck.de/
>
> mail/jabber: hanno@...eck.de
> GPG: BBB51E42
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Nick Semenkovich
Laboratory of Dr. Jeffrey I. Gordon
Medical Scientist Training Program
School of Medicine
Washington University in St. Louis
https://nick.semenkovich.com/
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