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LINCD-3016 : Security Advisory - nss - CVE-2020-6829

Created: Aug 27, 2020    Updated: Sep 13, 2022
Resolved Date: Sep 3, 2020
Found In Version: 10.20.6.0
Fix Version: 10.20.39.0
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux CD
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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