is clearsigned text also vulnerable to recent injection of unsigned data problem ?

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Thu Mar 30 00:08:12 CEST 2006


On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 01:03:35PM -0800, phil wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> A quick question regarding the recently discovered
> vulnerability to the injection of unsigned data :
>  
> >From the description, it wasn't completely clear to me
> whether this vulnerability also applied to 
> verification of clearsigned text.  Does it?

It doesn't.  Here's the story:
 
* It doesn't apply to signed software tarballs (detached signatures)
 
* It doesn't apply to PGP/MIME signed email messages (which are
  detached signatures under the hood)
 
* It doesn't apply to clearsigned messages
 
* It might apply to sign+encrypted PGP/MIME messages and
  sign+encrypted messages in general (though note your attacker in
  this case may be the person who encrypted the message...)
 
* It might apply to unencrypted-but-binary-signed messages
  (essentially signed+encrypted without the encryption - generally not
  used much).
 
David



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