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Message-ID: <fc81166c6bd64f25b3de82878a578fba@imshyb02.MITRE.ORG>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 00:44:42 -0500
From: <cve-assign@...re.org>
To: <anemec@...hat.com>
CC: <cve-assign@...re.org>, <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: CVE Request: Cryptography 1.5.3: HKDF might return an empty byte-string

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> 1.5.3 - 2016-11-05
> 
> * Security issue: Fixed a bug where HKDF would return an empty
> byte-string if used with a length less than algorithm.digest_size.
> Credit to Markus Doering for reporting the issue.
> 
> https://cryptography.io/en/latest/changelog/#id1
> https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/3211
> https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/commit/b924696b2e8731f39696584d12cceeb3aeb2d874

>> hazmat/primitives/kdf/hkdf.py
>> 
>> -  while (self._algorithm.digest_size // 8) * len(output) < self._length:
>> +  while self._algorithm.digest_size * (len(output) - 1) < self._length:

Use CVE-2016-9243.

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