GLSA-202301-08 : Mbed TLS: Multiple Vulnerabilities

critical Nessus Plugin ID 169842

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202301-08 (Mbed TLS: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

- A Lucky 13 timing side channel in mbedtls_ssl_decrypt_buf in library/ssl_msg.c in Trusted Firmware Mbed TLS through 2.23.0 allows an attacker to recover secret key information. This affects CBC mode because of a computed time difference based on a padding length. (CVE-2020-16150)

- An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.23.0. Because of a side channel in modular exponentiation, an RSA private key used in a secure enclave could be disclosed. (CVE-2020-36421)

- An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.23.0. A side channel allows recovery of an ECC private key, related to mbedtls_ecp_check_pub_priv, mbedtls_pk_parse_key, mbedtls_pk_parse_keyfile, mbedtls_ecp_mul, and mbedtls_ecp_mul_restartable. (CVE-2020-36422)

- An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.23.0. A remote attacker can recover plaintext because a certain Lucky 13 countermeasure doesn't properly consider the case of a hardware accelerator.
(CVE-2020-36423)

- An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.24.0. An attacker can recover a private key (for RSA or static Diffie-Hellman) via a side-channel attack against generation of base blinding/unblinding values.
(CVE-2020-36424)

- An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.24.0. It incorrectly uses a revocationDate check when deciding whether to honor certificate revocation via a CRL. In some situations, an attacker can exploit this by changing the local clock. (CVE-2020-36425)

- An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.24.0. mbedtls_x509_crl_parse_der has a buffer over-read (of one byte). (CVE-2020-36426)

- An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.25.0 (and before 2.16.9 LTS and before 2.7.18 LTS). The calculations performed by mbedtls_mpi_exp_mod are not limited; thus, supplying overly large parameters could lead to denial of service when generating Diffie-Hellman key pairs. (CVE-2020-36475)

- An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.24.0 (and before 2.16.8 LTS and before 2.7.17 LTS). There is missing zeroization of plaintext buffers in mbedtls_ssl_read to erase unused application data from memory.
(CVE-2020-36476)

- An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.24.0. The verification of X.509 certificates when matching the expected common name (the cn argument of mbedtls_x509_crt_verify) with the actual certificate name is mishandled: when the subjecAltName extension is present, the expected name is compared to any name in that extension regardless of its type. This means that an attacker could impersonate a 4-byte or 16-byte domain by getting a certificate for the corresponding IPv4 or IPv6 address (this would require the attacker to control that IP address, though). (CVE-2020-36477)

- An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.25.0 (and before 2.16.9 LTS and before 2.7.18 LTS). A NULL algorithm parameters entry looks identical to an array of REAL (size zero) and thus the certificate is considered valid. However, if the parameters do not match in any way, then the certificate should be considered invalid. (CVE-2020-36478)

- A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in mbed TLS 3.0.0 and earlier in the mbedtls_pkcs12_derivation function when an input password's length is 0. (CVE-2021-43666)

- Mbed TLS before 3.0.1 has a double free in certain out-of-memory conditions, as demonstrated by an mbedtls_ssl_set_session() failure. (CVE-2021-44732)

- In Mbed TLS before 2.28.0 and 3.x before 3.1.0, psa_cipher_generate_iv and psa_cipher_encrypt allow policy bypass or oracle-based decryption when the output buffer is at memory locations accessible to an untrusted application. (CVE-2021-45450)

- An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.28.1 and 3.x before 3.2.0. In some configurations, an unauthenticated attacker can send an invalid ClientHello message to a DTLS server that causes a heap-based buffer over-read of up to 255 bytes. This can cause a server crash or possibly information disclosure based on error responses. Affected configurations have MBEDTLS_SSL_DTLS_CLIENT_PORT_REUSE enabled and MBEDTLS_SSL_IN_CONTENT_LEN less than a threshold that depends on the configuration: 258 bytes if using mbedtls_ssl_cookie_check, and possibly up to 571 bytes with a custom cookie check function.
(CVE-2022-35409)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All Mbed TLS users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=net-libs/mbedtls-2.28.1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 169842

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202301-08.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks

Published: 1/11/2023

Updated: 9/8/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-44732

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:mbedtls, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/11/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-16150, CVE-2020-36421, CVE-2020-36422, CVE-2020-36423, CVE-2020-36424, CVE-2020-36425, CVE-2020-36426, CVE-2020-36475, CVE-2020-36476, CVE-2020-36477, CVE-2020-36478, CVE-2021-43666, CVE-2021-44732, CVE-2021-45450, CVE-2022-35409

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