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Message-Id: <201401021303.s02D3ZHO026497@linus.mitre.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 08:03:35 -0500 (EST)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: fweimer@...hat.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: kwallet crypto misuse
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> http://security.stackexchange.com/a/44010/32167
> then fill it with zeros; then XOR all these zeros with the data to
> encrypt (which won't change the data...); then proceed to encrypt each
> block independently of each other. This is, indeed, ECB mode, not CBC.
> It is quite obvious that this is a programming error ... This implies
> that the random IV which was computed does nothing here; it is
> encrypted by itself but does not impact any other byte in the whole
> file.
> From: Florian Weimer
> Should we treat this as a minor vulnerability?
Yes; use CVE-2013-7252.
> http://gaganpreet.in/blog/2013/07/24/kwallet-security-analysis/
> KWallet uses QDataStream, which encodes QString objects (used in
> KWallet maps) as UTF-16. So, the string "abcd" will be stored as
> "\0a\0b\0c\0d", which gives four bytes of information per block.
Does anyone know whether the KWallet user interface could make it
possible to enter passwords containing 16-bit characters (i.e.,
characters that cannot be represented using 8 bits)? If that would not
be possible, then this issue could potentially qualify for an
additional CVE assignment.
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