An issue was discovered in the supplementary Go cryptography library, golang.org/x/crypto, before v0.0.0-20190320223903-b7391e95e576. A flaw was found in the amd64 implementation of the golang.org/x/crypto/salsa20 and golang.org/x/crypto/salsa20/salsa packages. If more than 256 GiB of keystream is generated, or if the counter otherwise grows greater than 32 bits, the amd64 implementation will first generate incorrect output, and then cycle back to previously generated keystream. Repeated keystream bytes can lead to loss of confidentiality in encryption applications, or to predictability in CSPRNG applications.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2019-05-09T00:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-04T23:03:32.886Z
Reserved: 2019-05-09T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2019-11840
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2019-05-09T16:29:00.607
Modified: 2024-05-14T05:37:39.780
Link: CVE-2019-11840
Redhat