Information Exposure Affecting edk2-ovmf package, versions <0:20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS9-EDK2OVMF-3315352
- published 8 Feb 2023
- disclosed 7 Feb 2023
Introduced: 7 Feb 2023
CVE-2022-4304 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Centos:9 edk2-ovmf to version 0:20221207gitfff6d81270b5-9.el9_2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream edk2-ovmf package and not the edk2-ovmf package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
A timing based side channel exists in the OpenSSL RSA Decryption implementation which could be sufficient to recover a plaintext across a network in a Bleichenbacher style attack. To achieve a successful decryption an attacker would have to be able to send a very large number of trial messages for decryption. The vulnerability affects all RSA padding modes: PKCS#1 v1.5, RSA-OEAP and RSASVE.
For example, in a TLS connection, RSA is commonly used by a client to send an encrypted pre-master secret to the server. An attacker that had observed a genuine connection between a client and a server could use this flaw to send trial messages to the server and record the time taken to process them. After a sufficiently large number of messages the attacker could recover the pre-master secret used for the original connection and thus be able to decrypt the application data sent over that connection.