From 53d216081cf97b90d2cfdf06f9802680c0e8a05a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Manuel=20P=C3=A9gouri=C3=A9-Gonnard?= Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 12:17:05 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add a ChangeLog entry for local Lucky13 variant MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard --- ChangeLog.d/local-lucky13.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) create mode 100644 ChangeLog.d/local-lucky13.txt diff --git a/ChangeLog.d/local-lucky13.txt b/ChangeLog.d/local-lucky13.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5a3eed0ba --- /dev/null +++ b/ChangeLog.d/local-lucky13.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Security + * Fix a local timing side channel vulnerability in (D)TLS record decryption + when using a CBC ciphersuites without the Encrypt-then-Mac extension. In + those circumstances, a local attacker able to observe the state of the + cache could use well-chosen functions to measure the exact computation + time of the HMAC, and follow up with the usual range of Lucky 13 attacks, + including plaintext recovery and key recovery. Found and reported by Tuba + Yavuz, Farhaan Fowze, Ken (Yihan) Bai, Grant Hernandez, and Kevin Butler + (University of Florida) and Dave Tian (Purdue University).