CVE-2020-12403

NameCVE-2020-12403
DescriptionA flaw was found in the way CHACHA20-POLY1305 was implemented in NSS in versions before 3.55. When using multi-part Chacha20, it could cause out-of-bounds reads. This issue was fixed by explicitly disabling multi-part ChaCha20 (which was not functioning correctly) and strictly enforcing tag length. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality and system availability.
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-273-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
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
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)2:3.42.1-1+deb10u8fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye2:3.61-1+deb11u3fixed
bookworm2:3.87.1-1fixed
sid, trixie2:3.105-2fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
nsssourcejessie2:3.26-1+debu8u13ELA-273-1
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/f282556e6cc7715f5754aeaadda6f902590e7e38
https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/c25adfdfab34ddb08d3262aac3242e3399de1095
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1636771
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1868931

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