Trail of Bits

Western Digital Sweet B

Type

Security review

Client

Western Digital

Date

2020-01

Domain

Systems

Effort

4 wks

Section

Western Digital

Trail of Bits's security review of Western Digital (Jan 2020) identified 6 issues: 1 medium, 3 low, and 2 informational.

Findings · 6

  1. 1 Assembly does not work in all build configurations Medium
  2. 2 Use of libc functions that may not be constant time Low
  3. 3 Enabling of SB_DEBUG_ASSERTS violates constant time behavior Low
  4. 4 HMAC_DRBG may lack backtracking resistance Low
  5. 5 Use of functions on the SDL List of Banned Functions Informational
  6. 6 API for ECDSA signatures does not enforce secure message digests Informational

Findings extracted from the published report PDF. See the full report below for details and remediation.

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