Bug 1657913 (CVE-2018-12404) - CVE-2018-12404 nss: Cache side-channel variant of the Bleichenbacher attack
Summary: CVE-2018-12404 nss: Cache side-channel variant of the Bleichenbacher attack
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-12404
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1658019 1658020 1658021 1664539 1804398 1804399 1804400 1862436
Blocks: 1657914
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-12-10 17:33 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2021-02-15 18:19 UTC (History)
18 users (show)

Fixed In Version: nss 3.36.6, nss 3.40.1
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Last Closed: 2019-08-06 13:20:55 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Mozilla Foundation 1485864 0 -- RESOLVED Vulnerability disclosure Bleichenbacher attack 2021-02-15 18:19:24 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:2237 0 None None None 2019-08-06 12:31:21 UTC

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
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