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Date: Mon,  4 Jan 2016 20:30:47 -0500 (EST)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: ml@...ippo.io
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: python-rsa signature forgery

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> please assign a CVE to this signature forgery vulnerability in
> python-rsa. It allows an attacker to fake signatures for arbitrary
> messages for any key with low exponent "e" (like the common 3).
> 
> https://blog.filippo.io/bleichenbacher-06-signature-forgery-in-python-rsa/
> https://bitbucket.org/sybren/python-rsa/pull-requests/14/security-fix-bb06-attack-in-verify-by/diff

>> The python-rsa bug is not a vanilla BB'06, because the hash is
>> compared to all the data following the ASN.1 blob, but a simple
>> variant.

>>> Fix BB'06 attack in verify() by switching from parsing to comparison

Use CVE-2016-1494.

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CVE assignment team, MITRE CVE Numbering Authority
M/S M300
202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 USA
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