Bug 2249906 (CVE-2023-6135, minerva) - CVE-2023-6135 nss: vulnerable to Minerva side-channel information leak
Summary: CVE-2023-6135 nss: vulnerable to Minerva side-channel information leak
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-6135, minerva
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security
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Depends On: 2257838 2257839 2257840 2257902 2257903
Blocks: 2249907
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-11-15 21:36 UTC by Nick Tait
Modified: 2024-04-04 21:33 UTC (History)
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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.
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:0785 0 None None None 2024-02-12 13:52:40 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:0786 0 None None None 2024-02-12 13:54:00 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:0790 0 None None None 2024-02-12 16:44:11 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:0791 0 None None None 2024-02-12 16:43:57 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:1686 0 None None None 2024-04-04 21:33:11 UTC

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
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