Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Affecting nss package, versions <2:3.26.2-1.1+deb9u2
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-NSS-572789
- published 19 Jun 2020
- disclosed 9 Jul 2020
Introduced: 19 Jun 2020
CVE-2020-12402 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
nss
to version 2:3.26.2-1.1+deb9u2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nss
package and not the nss
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
During RSA key generation, bignum implementations used a variation of the Binary Extended Euclidean Algorithm which entailed significantly input-dependent flow. This allowed an attacker able to perform electromagnetic-based side channel attacks to record traces leading to the recovery of the secret primes. Note: An unmodified Firefox browser does not generate RSA keys in normal operation and is not affected, but products built on top of it might. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 78.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-12402
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-12402
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4726
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RFL6UNFK4MG2WDXLMLFAEIUSM5EUK7CG/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UWVDJRARXNWWWTCGMM63EXLQHH2LNOXO/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-10
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1631597
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-24/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00029.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00016.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00018.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00027.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00049.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4417-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4417-2/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RFL6UNFK4MG2WDXLMLFAEIUSM5EUK7CG/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UWVDJRARXNWWWTCGMM63EXLQHH2LNOXO/