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- Fix DSA, preserve BN_FLG_CONSTTIME
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Security: CVE-2016-2178
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dinoex authored and dinoex committed Jun 12, 2016
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion security/openssl/Makefile
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PORTNAME= openssl
PORTVERSION= 1.0.2
DISTVERSIONSUFFIX= h
PORTREVISION= 12
PORTREVISION= 13
CATEGORIES= security devel
MASTER_SITES= http://www.openssl.org/source/ \
ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/ \
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35 changes: 35 additions & 0 deletions security/openssl/files/patch-dsa_ossl.c
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Fix DSA, preserve BN_FLG_CONSTTIME

Operations in the DSA signing algorithm should run in constant time in
order to avoid side channel attacks. A flaw in the OpenSSL DSA
implementation means that a non-constant time codepath is followed for
certain operations. This has been demonstrated through a cache-timing
attack to be sufficient for an attacker to recover the private DSA key.

CVE-2016-2178

--- crypto/dsa/dsa_ossl.c.orig 2016-05-03 15:44:42.000000000 +0200
+++ crypto/dsa/dsa_ossl.c 2016-06-12 22:57:49.000000000 +0200
@@ -248,9 +248,6 @@
if (!BN_rand_range(&k, dsa->q))
goto err;
while (BN_is_zero(&k)) ;
- if ((dsa->flags & DSA_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME) == 0) {
- BN_set_flags(&k, BN_FLG_CONSTTIME);
- }

if (dsa->flags & DSA_FLAG_CACHE_MONT_P) {
if (!BN_MONT_CTX_set_locked(&dsa->method_mont_p,
@@ -282,6 +279,11 @@
} else {
K = &k;
}
+
+ if ((dsa->flags & DSA_FLAG_NO_EXP_CONSTTIME) == 0) {
+ BN_set_flags(&k, BN_FLG_CONSTTIME);
+ }
+
DSA_BN_MOD_EXP(goto err, dsa, r, dsa->g, K, dsa->p, ctx,
dsa->method_mont_p);
if (!BN_mod(r, r, dsa->q, ctx))

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