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Re: CVE Request -- Revelation: 1) Limits effective password length to 32 characters 2) Doesn't iterate the passphrase through SHA algorithm to derive the encryption key
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:10:51 -0600
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/18/2012 07:32 AM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
Hello Kurt, Steve, vendors, multiple security flaws have been found in Revelation, a password manager for GNOME 2. Specifically: 1) It was found that Revelation limited effective password lengths to thirty two characters, which made it easier for context-dependent attackers to successfully conduct brute-force password guessing attacks,
Please use CVE-2012-2742 for this issue
2) It was found that Revelation did not iterate the particular passphrase through some of the SHA family of hashing algorithms, in order to derive the encryption key, which made it easier (in that scenario there were only 7 bits to vary on each character) for context-dependent attackers to successfully conduct dictionary based password guessing attacks.
Please use CVE-2012-2743 for this issue. Assigned 2012 CVE's as the first clear mention of the issues is in the codepoet.no ticket. The Blog entry for 2010 mentions the issue indirectly so I'm going with the more concrete mention.
Upstream ticket: [1] http://oss.codepoet.no/revelation/issue/61/file-format-magic-string-version-mismatch Further references: [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421571 [3] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-June/168607.html
[4]
http://knoxin.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/revelation-password-manager-considered.html [5] http://westhoffswelt.de/blog/0046_from_revelation_security_to_android_password_managers.html Could you allocate two CVE ids for these? (I think two are needed for each of the issues) Thank you && Regards, Jan. -- Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team P.S.: Kurt - regarding time, when this issue has been reported for the first time (thus which CVE-201*- id to allocate), it is necessary to find this it out yet. Upstream ticket [1] was reported on 2012-02-06 (which would suggest CVE-2012-* one to be allocated), but the rest of the links mention this issue has been known for longer time, thus please investigate yet. I wanted to Cc- the original ticket reporter 'hannibal218bc' on this request (he to clarify), but I doesn't seem to be able to find his proper email address / contact. Sorry for that.
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- CVE Request -- Revelation: 1) Limits effective password length to 32 characters 2) Doesn't iterate the passphrase through SHA algorithm to derive the encryption key Jan Lieskovsky (Jun 18)
- Re: CVE Request -- Revelation: 1) Limits effective password length to 32 characters 2) Doesn't iterate the passphrase through SHA algorithm to derive the encryption key Kurt Seifried (Jun 18)