CVE-2019-11727

NameCVE-2019-11727
DescriptionA vulnerability exists where it possible to force Network Security Services (NSS) to sign CertificateVerify with PKCS#1 v1.5 signatures when those are the only ones advertised by server in CertificateRequest in TLS 1.3. PKCS#1 v1.5 signatures should not be used for TLS 1.3 messages. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 68.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
firefox (PTS)sid131.0-1fixed
nss (PTS)bullseye (security), bullseye2:3.61-1+deb11u3fixed
bookworm2:3.87.1-1fixed
trixie2:3.103-1fixed
sid2:3.105-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
firefoxsource(unstable)68.0-1unimportant
nsssourcebuster2:3.42.1-1+deb10u1
nsssource(unstable)2:3.45-1

Notes

[stretch] - nss <ignored> (Issue is specific to TLS 1.3 and support was not really complete in 3.26; code has diverged significantly since and applying the fix would be very disruptive)
[jessie] - nss <ignored> (Issue is specific to TLS 1.3 and support was not really complete in 3.26; code has diverged significantly since and applying the fix would be very disruptive)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-21/#CVE-2019-11727
https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/0a4e8b72a92e144663c2f35d3836f7828cfc97f2
firefox-esr in older suites than buster use the embedded copy and thus issue
is just fixed by updating firefox-esr to 60.8.0. For the others an update to
src:nss is needed as firefox-esr uses the system library.

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