The AES-GCM specification in RFC 5084, as used in Android 5.x and 6.x, recommends 12 octets for the aes-ICVlen parameter field, which might make it easier for attackers to defeat a cryptographic protection mechanism and discover an authentication key via a crafted application, aka internal bug 26234568. NOTE: The vendor disputes the existence of this potential issue in Android, stating "This CVE was raised in error: it referred to the authentication tag size in GCM, whose default according to ASN.1 encoding (12 bytes) can lead to vulnerabilities. After careful consideration, it was decided that the insecure default value of 12 bytes was a default only for the encoding and not default anywhere else in Android, and hence no vulnerability existed.
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http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html | Vendor Advisory |
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html | Vendor Advisory |
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Summary | The AES-GCM specification in RFC 5084, as used in Android 5.x and 6.x, recommends 12 octets for the aes-ICVlen parameter field, which might make it easier for attackers to defeat a cryptographic protection mechanism and discover an authentication key via a crafted application, aka internal bug 26234568. NOTE: The vendor disputes the existence of this potential issue in Android, stating "This CVE was raised in error: it referred to the authentication tag size in GCM, whose default according to ASN.1 encoding (12 bytes) can lead to vulnerabilities. After careful consideration, it was decided that the insecure default value of 12 bytes was a default only for the encoding and not default anywhere else in Android, and hence no vulnerability existed. |
Information
Published : 2016-04-18 00:59
Updated : 2024-11-21 02:48
NVD link : CVE-2016-2427
Mitre link : CVE-2016-2427
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2016-2427
JSON object : View
Products Affected
- android
bouncycastle
- legion-of-the-bouncy-castle-java-crytography-api
CWE
CWE-200
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor