vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-6489-1 (CVE-2023-1672): Tang vulnerability

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 11, 2023
Added
Nov 21, 2023
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

A race condition exists in the Tang server functionality for key generation and key rotation. This flaw results in a small time window where Tang private keys become readable by other processes on the same host.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-tangubuntu-upgrade-tangubuntu-upgrade-tang-common
Title
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