An issue was discovered in supplementary Go cryptography libraries, aka golang-googlecode-go-crypto, before 2019-03-20. A flaw was found in the amd64 implementation of golang.org/x/crypto/salsa20 and golang.org/x/crypto/salsa20/salsa. If more than 256 GiB of keystream is generated, or if the counter otherwise grows greater than 32 bits, the amd64 implementation will first generate incorrect output, and then cycle back to previously generated keystream. Repeated keystream bytes can lead to loss of confidentiality in encryption applications, or to predictability in CSPRNG applications.
CVE-2019-11840 - Medium Severity Vulnerability
[mirror] Go supplementary cryptography libraries
Library home page: https://proxy.golang.org/github.com/golang/crypto/@v/v0.0.0-20171018132924-ed5229da99e3.zip
Dependency Hierarchy: - :x: **github.com/golang/crypto-v0.0.0-20171018132924-ed5229da99e3** (Vulnerable Library)
Found in HEAD commit: 9505f4ca92405cc9273dc3726c2d274ce28a4407
Found in base branch: ALL_HANDS/major-secrets
An issue was discovered in supplementary Go cryptography libraries, aka golang-googlecode-go-crypto, before 2019-03-20. A flaw was found in the amd64 implementation of golang.org/x/crypto/salsa20 and golang.org/x/crypto/salsa20/salsa. If more than 256 GiB of keystream is generated, or if the counter otherwise grows greater than 32 bits, the amd64 implementation will first generate incorrect output, and then cycle back to previously generated keystream. Repeated keystream bytes can lead to loss of confidentiality in encryption applications, or to predictability in CSPRNG applications.
Publish Date: 2019-05-09
URL: CVE-2019-11840
Base Score Metrics: - Exploitability Metrics: - Attack Vector: Network - Attack Complexity: High - Privileges Required: None - User Interaction: None - Scope: Unchanged - Impact Metrics: - Confidentiality Impact: High - Integrity Impact: None - Availability Impact: None
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Origin: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1691529
Fix Resolution: Upgrade to version golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-0.20190320223903-b7391e95e576 or greater
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