GLSA 200609-18: Opera: RSA signature forgery

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Opera: RSA signature forgery
Date:	09/28/2006
Bugs:	#147838
ID:	200609-18

Synopsis

Opera fails to correctly verify certain signatures.

Background

Opera is a multi-platform web browser.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
www-client/opera	< 9.02	>= 9.02	All supported architectures

Description

Opera makes use of OpenSSL, which fails to correctly verify PKCS #1 v1.5 RSA signatures signed by a key with exponent 3. Some CAs in Opera's list of trusted signers are using root certificates with exponent 3.

Impact

An attacker could forge certificates which will appear valid and signed by a trusted CA.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Opera users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/opera-9.02"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200609-18.xml

Concerns?

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