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tang — security advisory
A race condition exists in the Tang server functionality for key generation and key rotation. This flaw results in a small time window where Tang private keys become readable by other processes on the same host.
- Products
- tang
- Affected versions
- 11-2
- Fixed versions
- 11-2+deb12u1, 14-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-1672
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 15:39 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A race condition exists in the Tang server functionality for key generation and key rotation. This flaw results in a small time window where Tang private keys become readable by other processes on the same host.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-1672
tang
Fixed versions: 11-2+deb12u1
tang
Fixed versions: 14-1
tang
Fixed versions: 14-1
Complete source record
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