| From e2202ff2b704623efc6277fb5256e4e15bac5676 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 |
| From: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> |
| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:17:52 +0200 |
| Subject: [PATCH] Mitigate a flush+reload cache attack on RSA secret |
| exponents. |
| |
| commit e2202ff2b704623efc6277fb5256e4e15bac5676 from |
| git://git.gnupg.org/libgcrypt.git |
| |
| * mpi/mpi-pow.c (gcry_mpi_powm): Always perfrom the mpi_mul for |
| exponents in secure memory. |
| |
| Upstream-Status: Backport |
| CVE: CVE-2013-4242 |
| |
| Signed-off-by: Kai Kang <kai.kang@windriver.com> |
| -- |
| |
| The attack is published as http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/448 : |
| |
| Flush+Reload: a High Resolution, Low Noise, L3 Cache Side-Channel |
| Attack by Yuval Yarom and Katrina Falkner. 18 July 2013. |
| |
| Flush+Reload is a cache side-channel attack that monitors access to |
| data in shared pages. In this paper we demonstrate how to use the |
| attack to extract private encryption keys from GnuPG. The high |
| resolution and low noise of the Flush+Reload attack enables a spy |
| program to recover over 98% of the bits of the private key in a |
| single decryption or signing round. Unlike previous attacks, the |
| attack targets the last level L3 cache. Consequently, the spy |
| program and the victim do not need to share the execution core of |
| the CPU. The attack is not limited to a traditional OS and can be |
| used in a virtualised environment, where it can attack programs |
| executing in a different VM. |
| |
| Index: gnupg-1.4.7/mpi/mpi-pow.c |
| =================================================================== |
| --- gnupg-1.4.7.orig/mpi/mpi-pow.c |
| +++ gnupg-1.4.7/mpi/mpi-pow.c |
| @@ -212,7 +212,13 @@ mpi_powm( MPI res, MPI base, MPI exponen |
| tp = rp; rp = xp; xp = tp; |
| rsize = xsize; |
| |
| - if( (mpi_limb_signed_t)e < 0 ) { |
| + /* To mitigate the Yarom/Falkner flush+reload cache |
| + * side-channel attack on the RSA secret exponent, we do |
| + * the multiplication regardless of the value of the |
| + * high-bit of E. But to avoid this performance penalty |
| + * we do it only if the exponent has been stored in secure |
| + * memory and we can thus assume it is a secret exponent. */ |
| + if (esec || (mpi_limb_signed_t)e < 0) { |
| /*mpihelp_mul( xp, rp, rsize, bp, bsize );*/ |
| if( bsize < KARATSUBA_THRESHOLD ) { |
| mpihelp_mul( xp, rp, rsize, bp, bsize ); |
| @@ -227,6 +233,8 @@ mpi_powm( MPI res, MPI base, MPI exponen |
| mpihelp_divrem(xp + msize, 0, xp, xsize, mp, msize); |
| xsize = msize; |
| } |
| + } |
| + if ( (mpi_limb_signed_t)e < 0 ) { |
| |
| tp = rp; rp = xp; xp = tp; |
| rsize = xsize; |