vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2023-6935: wolfssl -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Feb 9, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 27, 2025

Description

wolfSSL SP Math All RSA implementation is vulnerable to the Marvin Attack, new variation of a timing Bleichenbacher style attack, when built with the following options to configure:

--enable-all CFLAGS="-DWOLFSSL_STATIC_RSA"

The define “WOLFSSL_STATIC_RSA” enables static RSA cipher suites, which is not recommended, and has been disabled by default since wolfSSL 3.6.6.  Therefore the default build since 3.6.6, even with "--enable-all", is not vulnerable to the Marvin Attack. The vulnerability is specific to static RSA cipher suites, and expected to be padding-independent.

The vulnerability allows an attacker to decrypt ciphertexts and forge signatures after probing with a large number of test observations. However the server’s private key is not exposed.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
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