Issue summary: The AES-XTS cipher decryption...
Unreviewed
Published
Apr 20, 2023
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Nov 5, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Apr 20, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Apr 20, 2023
Last updated
Nov 5, 2023
Issue summary: The AES-XTS cipher decryption implementation for 64 bit ARM
platform contains a bug that could cause it to read past the input buffer,
leading to a crash.
Impact summary: Applications that use the AES-XTS algorithm on the 64 bit ARM
platform can crash in rare circumstances. The AES-XTS algorithm is usually
used for disk encryption.
The AES-XTS cipher decryption implementation for 64 bit ARM platform will read
past the end of the ciphertext buffer if the ciphertext size is 4 mod 5, e.g.
144 bytes or 1024 bytes. If the memory after the ciphertext buffer is
unmapped, this will trigger a crash which results in a denial of service.
If an attacker can control the size and location of the ciphertext buffer
being decrypted by an application using AES-XTS on 64 bit ARM, the
application is affected. This is fairly unlikely making this issue
a Low severity one.
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