SB20200716161 - Fedora 31 update for nspr, nss
Published: July 16, 2020 Updated: April 25, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB20200716161
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Information disclosure
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Cryptographic issues (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-12402)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to recover the secret primes.
During RSA key generation, bignum implementations used a variation of the Binary Extended Euclidean Algorithm which entailed significantly input-dependent flow. This allowed an attacker able to perform electromagnetic-based side channel attacks to record traces leading to the recovery of the secret primes.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.