CVE-2020-27170

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.8. kernel/bpf/verifier.c performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic, leading to side-channel attacks that defeat Spectre mitigations and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, aka CID-f232326f6966. This...

PT-2021-6813

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mbed TLS version 2.24.0 Description A side-channel vulnerability in base64 PEM file decoding exists, allowing system-level attackers to obtain information about secret RSA keys via a controlled-channel and side-channel attack on software runni...

New Browser Attack Allows Tracking Users Online With JavaScript Disabled

Researchers have discovered a new side-channel that they say can be reliably exploited to leak information from web browsers that could then be leveraged to track users even when JavaScript is completely disabled. "This is a side-channel attack which doesn't require any JavaScript to run," the...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for nss (EulerOS-SA-2021-1640)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.1 : nss (EulerOS-SA-2021-1615)

According to the versions of the nss packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - In Network Security Services NSS before 3.46, several cryptographic primitives had missing length checks. In cases where the...

NewStart CGSL MAIN 6.02 : nss Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2021-0053)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 6.02, has nss packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - Improper refcounting of soft token session objects could cause a use-after-free and crash likely limited to a denial of service. This vulnerability affects Firefox...

Newest Intel Side-Channel Attack Sniffs Out Sensitive Data

Intel processors are vulnerable to a new side-channel attack, which researchers said can allow attackers to steal sensitive information such as encryption keys or passwords. Unlike previous side-channel attacks, this attack does not rely on sharing memory, cache sets and other former tactics...

Malware Can Exploit New Flaw in Intel CPUs to Launch Side-Channel Attacks

A new research has yielded yet another means to pilfer sensitive data by exploiting what's the first "on-chip, cross-core" side-channel attack targeting the ring interconnect used in Intel Coffee Lake and Skylake processors. Published by a group of academics from the University of Illinois at...

EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.6.0 : nss-softokn (EulerOS-SA-2021-1536)

According to the versions of the nss-softokn packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A flaw was found in the way CHACHA20-POLY1305 was implemented in NSS. When using multi-part Chacha20, it could...

Oracle Linux 8 : nss (ELSA-2021-0538)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2021-0538 advisory. - CVE-2020-12403 chacha-poly issues - CVE-2020-12400 constant time ECC. - CVE-2020-6829 constant time ECC. Tenable has extracted the preceding...

CentOS 8 : nss (CESA-2021:0538)

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2021:0538 advisory. - nss: P-384 and P-521 implementation uses a side-channel vulnerable modular inversion function CVE-2020-12400 - nss: CHACHA20-POLY1305 decryption with...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: nss security and bug fix update

An update for nss is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CV...

nss security and bug fix update

An update is available for nss. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list Network Security Services NSS is a set of libraries designed to support the...

RHEL 8 : nss (RHSA-2021:0538)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:0538 advisory. Network Security Services NSS is a set of libraries designed to support the cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server...

USN-4504-1: OpenSSL vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

Severity Low Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 16.04 Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 Description Robert Merget, Marcus Brinkmann, Nimrod Aviram, and Juraj Somorovsky discovered that certain Diffie-Hellman ciphersuites in the TLS specification and implemented by OpenSSL contained a...

CVE-2020-8807

In Electric Coin Company Zcashd before 2.1.1-1, the time offset between messages could be leveraged to obtain sensitive information about the relationship between a suspected victim's address and an IP address, aka a timing side channel...

CentOS 8 : java-1.8.0-openjdk (CESA-2019:1816)

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2019:1816 advisory. - OpenJDK: Side-channel attack risks in Elliptic Curve EC cryptography Security, 8208698 CVE-2019-2745 - OpenJDK: Insufficient checks of suppressed...

CentOS 8 : openssl (CESA-2019:3700)

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2019:3700 advisory. - openssl: timing side channel attack in the DSA signature algorithm CVE-2018-0734 - openssl: timing side channel attack in the ECDSA signature...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update provides an upgrade to the new upstream 5.10 longterm branch, currently based on 5.10.6, adding new features and new and improved hardware support. This update also fixes at least the following security issues: In binderreleasework of binder.c, there is a possible use-after-free due t...

Cloning Google Titan 2FA keys

This is a clever side-channel attack: The cloning works by using a hot air gun and a scalpel to remove the plastic key casing and expose the NXP A700X chip, which acts as a secure element that stores the cryptographic secrets. Next, an attacker connects the chip to hardware and software that take...