vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-12403: Out-of-bounds Read

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 27, 2021
Added
Mar 26, 2024
Modified
Aug 8, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in the way CHACHA20-POLY1305 was implemented in NSS in versions before 3.55. When using multi-part Chacha20, it could cause out-of-bounds reads. This issue was fixed by explicitly disabling multi-part ChaCha20 (which was not functioning correctly) and strictly enforcing tag length. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality and system availability.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-nss
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