svn commit: r484820 - head/security/vuxml

Bernard Spil brnrd at FreeBSD.org
Mon Nov 12 20:18:11 UTC 2018


Author: brnrd
Date: Mon Nov 12 20:18:10 2018
New Revision: 484820
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/484820

Log:
  security/vuxml: Document openssl vulnerability

Modified:
  head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml

Modified: head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml	Mon Nov 12 19:27:04 2018	(r484819)
+++ head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml	Mon Nov 12 20:18:10 2018	(r484820)
@@ -58,6 +58,38 @@ Notes:
   * Do not forget port variants (linux-f10-libxml2, libxml2, etc.)
 -->
 <vuxml xmlns="http://www.vuxml.org/apps/vuxml-1">
+  <vuln vid="6f170cf2-e6b7-11e8-a9a8-b499baebfeaf">
+    <topic>OpenSSL -- timing vulnerability</topic>
+    <affects>
+      <package>
+	<name>openssl</name>
+	<range><lt>1.0.2p_2</lt></range>
+      </package>
+    </affects>
+    <description>
+      <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+	<p>The OpenSSL project reports:</p>
+	<blockquote cite="https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20181112.txt">
+	  <p>Microarchitecture timing vulnerability in ECC scalar
+	    multiplication. Severity: Low<br/>
+	    OpenSSL ECC scalar multiplication, used in e.g. ECDSA and ECDH, has
+	    been shown to be vulnerable to a microarchitecture timing side channel
+	    attack. An attacker with sufficient access to mount local timing
+	    attacks during ECDSA signature generation could recover the private
+	    key.</p>
+	</blockquote>
+      </body>
+    </description>
+    <references>
+      <url>https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20181112.txt</url>
+      <cvename>CVE-2018-5407</cvename>
+    </references>
+    <dates>
+      <discovery>2018-11-12</discovery>
+      <entry>2018-11-12</entry>
+    </dates>
+  </vuln>
+
   <vuln vid="1460aa25-e6ab-11e8-a733-e0d55e2a8bf9">
     <topic>kio-extras -- HTML Thumbnailer automatic remote file access</topic>
     <affects>


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