CVE-2013-1624 Information

Description

The TLS implementation in the Bouncy Castle Java library before 1.48 and C library before 1.8 does not properly consider timing side-channel attacks on a noncompliant MAC check operation during the processing of malformed CBC padding which allows remote attackers to conduct distinguishing attacks and plaintext-recovery attacks via statistical analysis of timing data for crafted packets a related issue to CVE-2013-0169.

Reference

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/05/24 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0371.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0372.html http://secunia.com/advisories/57716 http://secunia.com/advisories/57719 http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/TLStiming.pdf