CVE-2020-12401

NameCVE-2020-12401
DescriptionDuring ECDSA signature generation, padding applied in the nonce designed to ensure constant-time scalar multiplication was removed, resulting in variable-time execution dependent on secret data. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 80 and Firefox for Android < 80.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-2388-1, DLA-3327-1, ELA-256-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
firefox (PTS)sid124.0.1-1fixed
nss (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)2:3.26-1+debu8u18fixed
stretch (security)2:3.26.2-1.1+deb9u5fixed
stretch (lts), stretch2:3.26.2-1.1+deb9u7fixed
buster2:3.42.1-1+deb10u5vulnerable
buster (security)2:3.42.1-1+deb10u8fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye2:3.61-1+deb11u3fixed
bookworm2:3.87.1-1fixed
sid, trixie2:3.99-1fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
firefoxsource(unstable)80.0-1
nsssourcejessie2:3.26-1+debu8u12ELA-256-1
nsssourcestretch2:3.26.2-1.1+deb9u2DLA-2388-1
nsssourcebuster2:3.42.1-1+deb10u6DLA-3327-1
nsssource(unstable)2:3.55-1

Notes

https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/aeb2e583ee957a699d949009c7ba37af76515c20
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1631573 (private)
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.55_release_notes
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-36/#CVE-2020-12401

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