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LIN10-7686 : Security Advisory - nss - CVE-2020-12401

Created: Aug 24, 2020    Updated: Sep 14, 2020
Resolved Date: Sep 9, 2020
Found In Version: 10.17.41.1
Fix Version: 10.17.41.22
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 17
Component/s: Userspace

Description

A timing attacker against ECDSA signature generation is able to obtain information from the secret nonce measuring the time an ECDSA signature generation takes. Current NSS code path has a countermeasure to prevent this know attack since 2011. However it was found that said countermeasure could be completely bypassed. 

CREATE(Triage):(User=admin) [CVE-2020-12401|https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12401]

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