Bug 1657913 (CVE-2018-12404)

Summary:	CVE-2018-12404 nss: Cache side-channel variant of the Bleichenbacher attack
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bmcclain, dblechte, dfediuck, dueno, eedri, elio.maldonado.batiz, hkario, kdudka, kengert, mgoldboi, michal.skrivanek, nss-nspr-maint, pvrabec, rh-spice-bugs, sbonazzo, sherold, slawomir, yturgema
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	nss 3.36.6, nss 3.40.1	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed:	2019-08-06 13:20:55 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1658019, 1658020, 1658021, 1664539, 1804398, 1804399, 1804400, 1862436
Bug Blocks:	1657914

Description Laura Pardo 2018-12-10 17:33:20 UTC

An issue was found in nss before version 3.36.6. The TLS implementation exposes padding oracle in each of the three stages of handling PKCS #1 v1.5 padding


References:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.36.6_release_notes
http://cat.eyalro.net/

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2018-12-11 03:42:17 UTC

This issue was also resolved via nss-3.40 as per:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.40.1_release_notes

Comment 3 Doran Moppert 2019-01-09 05:28:30 UTC

Created nss tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1664539]

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 12:31:19 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2019:2237 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2237

Comment 5 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-08-06 13:20:55 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-12404