| Name | CVE-2023-5388 |
| Description | NSS was susceptible to a timing side-channel attack when performing RSA decryption. This attack could potentially allow an attacker to recover the private data. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 124, Firefox ESR < 115.9, and Thunderbird < 115.9. |
| 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-3757-1, DLA-3769-1, DLA-3775-1, DSA-5643-1, DSA-5644-1, ELA-1054-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 1056284 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| firefox (PTS) | sid | 133.0.3-1 | fixed |
| firefox-esr (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 68.9.0esr-1~deb8u2 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 91.11.0esr-1~deb9u1 | vulnerable |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 115.12.0esr-1~deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 115.14.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 128.5.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 128.3.1esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 128.5.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 128.5.0esr-1 | fixed |
| sid | 128.5.1esr-1 | fixed |
| nss (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2:3.26-1+debu8u19 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 2:3.26.2-1.1+deb9u5 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 2:3.26.2-1.1+deb9u8 | fixed |
| buster, buster (lts) | 2:3.42.1-1+deb10u9 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 2:3.42.1-1+deb10u8 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2:3.61-1+deb11u3 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 2:3.61-1+deb11u4 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 2:3.87.1-1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm (security) | 2:3.87.1-1+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 2:3.106-1 | fixed |
| thunderbird (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1:68.9.0-1~deb8u2 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 1:91.10.0-1~deb9u1 | vulnerable |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1:115.12.0-1~deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:115.12.0-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:128.5.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:115.16.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 1:128.5.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:128.5.2esr-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[bookworm] - nss <ignored> (Minor issue, too intrusive to backport)
[bullseye] - nss <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://people.redhat.com/~hkario/marvin/
Vendor patch (Rocky Linux, not upstreamed): https://git.rockylinux.org/staging/rpms/nss/-/commit/1f7f7523b61a2ada2f461548c4160fbbf979c5dd
Fixed by: https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/196716d8377ab427e326f20bff2d026e90ac69e2
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-12/#CVE-2023-5388
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-13/#CVE-2023-5388
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-14/#CVE-2023-5388