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LIN10-7707 : Security Advisory - nss - CVE-2020-6829

Created: Aug 27, 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

Using the EM side-channel, it is possible to extract the position of zero and non-zero wNAF digits while nss-certutil tool performs scalar multiplication during the ECDSA signature generation, leaking partial information about the ECDSA nonce. Given a small number of ECDSA signatures, this information can be used to steal the private key.

CREATE(Triage):(User=admin) [CVE-2020-6829|https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6829]

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