Cryptographic issues in Mozilla products - CVE-2024-7531

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

Calling PK11_Encrypt() in NSS using CKM_CHACHA20 and the same buffer for input and output can result in plaintext on an Intel Sandy Bridge processor. In Firefox this only affects the QUIC header protection feature when the connection is using the ChaCha20-Poly1305 cipher suite. The most likely outcome is connection failure, but if the connection persists despite the high packet loss it could be possible for a network observer to identify packets as coming from the same source despite a network path change.

How to mitigate CVE-2024-7531

Sources

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1905691
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-33/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-34/
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2024-35/