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Date:      Wed, 3 Aug 2005 17:17:07 +0200
From:      "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jacques Vidrine <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/security/vuxml vuln.xml
Message-ID:  <20050803151706.GG851@zaphod.nitro.dk>
In-Reply-To: <BAE20AF8-4824-441D-AA3F-EA7EC8F79563@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200507311323.j6VDNoTB070910@repoman.freebsd.org> <0FD8500C-E0DE-4CB2-B7EF-DDCF5A7B754F@vidrine.us> <20050803115540.GF851@zaphod.nitro.dk> <BAE20AF8-4824-441D-AA3F-EA7EC8F79563@FreeBSD.org>

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On 2005.08.03 07:07:05 -0500, Jacques Vidrine wrote:
> On Aug 3, 2005, at 6:55 AM, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> >On 2005.07.31 10:34:00 -0500, Jacques Vidrine wrote:
> >>On Jul 31, 2005, at 8:23 AM, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> >>> Document gnupg -- OpenPGP symmetric encryption vulnerability.
> >>>
[...]
> >Doh, I had for some reason not thought of that.  It seems like there
> >is p5-Crypt-OpenPGP, security/pgpin, security/pgp, and security/pgp6
> >which are not just frontends.
> >
> >From a quick check of the pgp 2.6.3 docs it seems to also support CFB
> >so I would think it is also vulnerable.
>=20
> Hmm.  The flaw is in the /OpenPGP variant/ of CFB.  So I am uncertain =20
> whether PGP 2 is affected...

I'm not sure at all either - the quick check was merly to see if it
was likely it applied at all.

I'm not really sure what to do here... on one hand I want acurate
information for this entry, on the other hand I think it's a bit of a
waste of time (which could be spent better...) to look to much into
it... Google doesn't really turn anything up about it.

--=20
Simon L. Nielsen

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