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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-12404): NSS vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-12404): NSS vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
12/13/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
01/16/2019
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libnss3

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