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Date:      Thu, 31 Aug 2000 12:06:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      rwatson@freebsd.org
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   kern/20963: wicontrol (and supporting ioctls/sysctls, presumably) reveal crypto key
Message-ID:  <200008311606.MAA25648@fledge.watson.org>

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>Number:         20963
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       wicontrol (and supporting calls) reveal hardware crypto key to any user
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Aug 31 09:10:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Robert Watson
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386
>Organization:
NAI Labs at Network Associates
>Environment:

4.1-STABLE, using Wavelan wi driver, with hardware encryption enabled.

>Description:

wicontrol will show the hardware crypto key to any user.  Probably, 
release of the crypto key should occur only to a process with appropriate
privilege.  This cannot just be done in wicontrol, but must be done at
the ioctl used to retrieve the key, in kernel.  Access to the system
should not imply complete access to the network infrastructure.

>How-To-Repeat:

wicontrol -i wi0

>Fix:

Not attached.


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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