Bug 2249906 (CVE-2023-6135, minerva)

Summary:	CVE-2023-6135 nss: vulnerable to Minerva side-channel information leak
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Nick Tait <ntait>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	abobrov, erack, hkario, jhorak, saroy, security-response-team, tpopela
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	The Network Security Services (NSS) package contains a vulnerability that exposes a side-channel information leak. This weakness enables a local attacker to capture several thousand usages of a signature, allowing them to utilize this information to recover portions of an ECDSA private key.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2257838, 2257839, 2257840, 2257902, 2257903
Bug Blocks:	2249907

Description Nick Tait 2023-11-15 21:36:26 UTC

NSS is vulnerable to the Minerva attack https://minerva.crocs.fi.muni.cz/

The CVE has been assigned by upstream.

Upstream bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1853908

Comment 4 Sandipan Roy 2024-01-11 09:19:53 UTC

Created firefox tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-38 [bug 2257838]
Affects: fedora-39 [bug 2257839]

Comment 6 Sandipan Roy 2024-01-11 09:22:18 UTC

Created nss tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2257840]

Comment 12 Sandipan Roy 2024-01-11 13:25:31 UTC

Created thunderbird tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-38 [bug 2257902]
Affects: fedora-39 [bug 2257903]

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2024-02-12 13:52:39 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2024:0785 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0785

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2024-02-12 13:53:59 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2024:0786 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0786

Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2024-02-12 16:43:56 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2024:0791 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0791

Comment 18 errata-xmlrpc 2024-02-12 16:44:10 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2024:0790 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0790

Comment 19 errata-xmlrpc 2024-04-04 21:33:10 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers

Via RHSA-2024:1686 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1686