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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 10:33:59 +0400
From: Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Assign a CVE Identifier <cve-assign@...re.org>, security@...ebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: URGENT: RNG broken for last 4 months
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com> wrote:
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2015-February/054580.html
>
Hi Kurt,
>From the follow-up mails it seems to affect FreeBSD-current only.
(See: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2015-February/054581.html)
> If you are running a current kernel r273872 or later, please upgrade
> your kernel to r278907 or later immediately and regenerate keys.
>
> I discovered an issue where the new framework code was not calling
> randomdev_init_reader, which means that read_random(9) was not returning
> good random data. read_random(9) is used by arc4random(9) which is
> the primary method that arc4random(3) is seeded from.
>
> This means most/all keys generated may be predictable and must be
> regenerated. This includes, but not limited to, ssh keys and keys
> generated by openssl. This is purely a kernel issue, and a simple
> kernel upgrade w/ the patch is sufficient to fix the issue.
>
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> =======
>
> I assume this needs a CVE, I know technically it didn't involve a
> release but quite a few people run -current (and it's a 4 month affected
> window), so if we're assigning CVE's to stuff hosted in github, then it
> seems fair that this should get one.
>
> --
> Kurt Seifried -- Red Hat -- Product Security -- Cloud
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