FreeBSD : go -- information disclosure vulnerability (6809c6db-bdeb-11e5-b5fe-002590263bf5)

high Nessus Plugin ID 87983

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Jason Buberel reports :

A security-related issue has been reported in Go's math/big package.
The issue was introduced in Go 1.5. We recommend that all users upgrade to Go 1.5.3, which fixes the issue. Go programs must be recompiled with Go 1.5.3 in order to receive the fix.

The Go team would like to thank Nick Craig-Wood for identifying the issue.

This issue can affect RSA computations in crypto/rsa, which is used by crypto/tls. TLS servers on 32-bit systems could plausibly leak their RSA private key due to this issue. Other protocol implementations that create many RSA signatures could also be impacted in the same way.

Specifically, incorrect results in one part of the RSA Chinese Remainder computation can cause the result to be incorrect in such a way that it leaks one of the primes. While RSA blinding should prevent an attacker from crafting specific inputs that trigger the bug, on 32-bit systems the bug can be expected to occur at random around one in 2^26 times. Thus collecting around 64 million signatures (of known data) from an affected server should be enough to extract the private key used.

On 64-bit systems, the frequency of the bug is so low (less than one in 2^50) that it would be very difficult to exploit. Nonetheless, everyone is strongly encouraged to upgrade.

Solution

Update the affected package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 87983

File Name: freebsd_pkg_6809c6dbbdeb11e5b5fe002590263bf5.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 1/19/2016

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:go, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 1/18/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/13/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8618

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