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Information Exposure Affecting nss-sysinit package, versions <0:3.44.0-7.84.amzn1

high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Confidentiality High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.08% (32nd percentile)
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NVD
4.7 medium
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SUSE
5.1 medium
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Red Hat
5.1 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN201803-NSSSYSINIT-1722788
  • published 27 Sep 2021
  • disclosed 13 Jun 2018
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Introduced: 13 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-0495 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-203 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 nss-sysinit to version 0:3.44.0-7.84.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2020-1355.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nss-sysinit package and not the nss-sysinit package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

Libgcrypt before 1.7.10 and 1.8.x before 1.8.3 allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures that can be mitigated through the use of blinding during the signing process in the _gcry_ecc_ecdsa_sign function in cipher/ecc-ecdsa.c, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP. To discover an ECDSA key, the attacker needs access to either the local machine or a different virtual machine on the same physical host.

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