CVE-2020-12403
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-05-27 00:00
Modified
2024-08-04 11:56
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1868931Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.55_release_notesRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00021.html
security@mozilla.orghttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230324-0006/
Impacted products
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