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Security New PortSmash side-channel vulnerability - Cpu's with HT affected

Discussion in 'CentOS, Redhat & Oracle Linux News' started by Revenge, Nov 3, 2018.

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    Intel CPUs impacted by new PortSmash side-channel vulnerability | ZDNet

     
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    Here we go again ! Thanks @Revenge for the heads up. Seems future is to go with HT disabled on servers so AMD EPYC might be more ideal given still higher number of cpu cores after HT is disabled.
     
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    If anyone wants to try the exploit, here is a proof of concept.

    bbbrumley/portsmash

    This one steals the private key from a TLS session, but it can be changed to steal anything.
     
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    seems to require openssl 1.1.0h or lower ? Centmin Mod Nginx uses 1.1.0i or 1.1.1 out of box now in 123.09beta01
     
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    For that proof of concept. Anyone with the know how, can change the exploit to steal 1.0.0i or 1.1.1.
     
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    Ah I see :)
    OpenSSL folks seem to be working on commits in their master branch for this openssl/openssl