metadata/glsa/glsa-201408-14.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201408-14">
  <title>stunnel: Information disclosure</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in stunnel might allow remote attackers to gain
    access to private key information.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">stunnel</product>
  <announced>August 29, 2014</announced>
  <revised>August 29, 2014: 1</revised>
  <bug>503506</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-misc/stunnel" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">5.02</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">5.02</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>The stunnel program is designed to work as an SSL encryption wrapper
      between a client and a local or remote server. 
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>stunnel does not properly update the state of the pseudo-random
      generator after fork-threading which causes subsequent children with the
      same process ID to use the same entropy pool. ECDSA and DSA keys, when
      not used in deterministic mode (RFC6979), rely on random data for its k
      parameter to not leak private key information.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker may gain access to private key information from ECDSA
      or DSA keys.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All stunnel users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-misc/stunnel-5.02"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0016">CVE-2014-0016</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sun, 06 Jul 2014 22:44:37 +0000">
    BlueKnight
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 29 Aug 2014 18:54:29 +0000">K_F</metadata>
</glsa>