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amazonAmazonALAS2-2023-2208
HistoryAug 17, 2023 - 11:58 a.m.

Important: cni-plugins

2023-08-1711:58:00
alas.aws.amazon.com
8
rsa keys
cpu time
certificate chains
web pki
safety
cve-2023-29409

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

31.3%

Issue Overview:

Extremely large RSA keys in certificate chains can cause a client/server to expend significant CPU time verifying signatures. With fix, the size of RSA keys transmitted during handshakes is restricted to <= 8192 bits. Based on a survey of publicly trusted RSA keys, there are currently only three certificates in circulation with keys larger than this, and all three appear to be test certificates that are not actively deployed. It is possible there are larger keys in use in private PKIs, but we target the web PKI, so causing breakage here in the interests of increasing the default safety of users of crypto/tls seems reasonable. (CVE-2023-29409)

Affected Packages:

cni-plugins

Issue Correction:
Run yum update cni-plugins to update your system.

New Packages:

aarch64:  
    cni-plugins-1.2.0-1.amzn2.0.3.aarch64  
    cni-plugins-debuginfo-1.2.0-1.amzn2.0.3.aarch64  
  
src:  
    cni-plugins-1.2.0-1.amzn2.0.3.src  
  
x86_64:  
    cni-plugins-1.2.0-1.amzn2.0.3.x86_64  
    cni-plugins-debuginfo-1.2.0-1.amzn2.0.3.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2023-29409

Mitre: CVE-2023-29409