Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS): Information disclosure

Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS): Information disclosure NSS has an information disclosure vulnerability when handling DSA keys. nss 2020-07-27 2020-07-27 726842 local, remote 3.52.1 3.52.1

The Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS) is a library implementing security features like SSL v.2/v.3, TLS, PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12, S/MIME and X.509 certificates.

NSS was found to not always perform constant-time operations when working with DSA key material.

An attacker may be able to obtain information about a DSA private key.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All NSS users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/nss-3.52.1"

CVE-2020-12399 sam_c sam_c