Name | CVE-2020-12400 |
Description | When converting coordinates from projective to affine, the modular inversion was not performed in constant time, resulting in a possible timing-based side channel attack. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 80 and Firefox for Android < 80. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DLA-2388-1, DLA-3327-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
firefox (PTS) | sid | 131.0.2-2 | fixed |
nss (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 2:3.61-1+deb11u3 | fixed |
bookworm | 2:3.87.1-1 | fixed | |
sid, trixie | 2:3.105-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
firefox | source | (unstable) | 80.0-1 | |||
nss | source | stretch | 2:3.26.2-1.1+deb9u2 | DLA-2388-1 | ||
nss | source | buster | 2:3.42.1-1+deb10u6 | DLA-3327-1 | ||
nss | source | (unstable) | 2:3.55-1 |
https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/e55ab3145546ae3cf1333b43956a974675d2d25c
https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/3f022d5eca5d3cd0e366a825a5681953d76299d0
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.55_release_notes
Issue relates to CVE-2020-6829 and resolved in the same commits.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-36/#CVE-2020-12400