| Name | CVE-2018-12404 |
| Description | A cached side channel attack during handshakes using RSA encryption could allow for the decryption of encrypted content. This is a variant of the Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext attack (AKA Bleichenbacher attack) and affects all NSS versions prior to NSS 3.41. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1704-1 |
| NVD severity | medium |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| nss (PTS) | jessie | 2:3.26-1+debu8u3 | vulnerable |
| jessie (security) | 2:3.26-1+debu8u10 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch | 2:3.26.2-1.1+deb9u1 | vulnerable |
| buster, buster (security) | 2:3.42.1-1+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2:3.49.1-1 | fixed |
| sid | 2:3.51-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| nss | source | (unstable) | 2:3.41-1 | | | |
| nss | source | jessie | 2:3.26-1+debu8u4 | | DLA-1704-1 | |
Notes
http://cat.eyalro.net/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1485864 (not public)
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.36.6_release_notes
Fixed in 3.36.6, 3.40.1