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Medium ALAS2-2019-1305 2 CVEs

Moderate: nss security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Sep 30, 2019 · Updated Oct 2, 2019

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-12404: A cached side channel attack during handshakes using RSA encryption could allow for the decryption of encrypted content. This is a variant of the Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext attack (AKA Bleichenbacher attack) and affects all NSS versions prior to NSS 3.41. 1657913: CVE-2018-12404 nss: Cache side-channel variant of the Bleichenbacher attack CVE-2018-0495: Libgcrypt before 1.7.10 and 1.8.x before 1.8.3 allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures that can be mitigated through the use of blinding during the signing process in the _gcry_ecc_ecdsa_sign function in cipher/ecc-ecdsa.c, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP. To discover an ECDSA key, the attacker needs access to either the local machine or a different virtual machine on the same physical host. 1591163: CVE-2018-0495 openssl: ROHNP - Key Extraction Side Channel in Multiple Crypto Libraries 1591163: CVE-2018-0495 ROHNP: Key Extraction Side Channel in Multiple Crypto Libraries

Fixed packages 6

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 nss 0:3.44.0-4.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 nss-debuginfo 0:3.44.0-4.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 nss-devel 0:3.44.0-4.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 nss-pkcs11-devel 0:3.44.0-4.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 nss-sysinit 0:3.44.0-4.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 nss-tools 0:3.44.0-4.amzn2.0.2

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-0495.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-12404.html