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Commit 613317bd authored by Ryan Ware's avatar Ryan Ware Committed by James Morris
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EVM: Use crypto_memneq() for digest comparisons



This patch fixes vulnerability CVE-2016-2085.  The problem exists
because the vm_verify_hmac() function includes a use of memcmp().
Unfortunately, this allows timing side channel attacks; specifically
a MAC forgery complexity drop from 2^128 to 2^12.  This patch changes
the memcmp() to the cryptographically safe crypto_memneq().

Reported-by: default avatarXiaofei Rex Guo <xiaofei.rex.guo@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRyan Ware <ware@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarMimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
parent c05235d5
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