On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 12:23 AM, Emeric POUPON
<emeric.pou...@stormshield.eu> wrote:
>> From: "Conrad Meyer" <c...@freebsd.org>
>
>> Can users control arbitrary key_allocsp() calls?  If so, it seems
>> concerning to expose hit/miss stats on cached security keys.
>
> I am not sure to understand, could you please tell more about what you mean?

If users can insert arbitrary keys into the cache, they can check the
hit/miss statistics to tell if that key was already present --
revealing key contents.  This would be a major problem.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/10617/what-is-a-cryptographic-oracle

Best,
Conrad
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