ELA-232-1 nss security update

timing attack

2020-06-07
Packagenss
Version2:3.26-1+debu7u12
Related CVEs CVE-2020-12399


A timing attack was found in the way NSS generated DSA signatures. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw during DSA signature generation to recover the private key.



For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 2:3.26-1+debu7u12.

We recommend that you upgrade your nss packages.

Further information about Extended LTS security advisories can be found in the dedicated section of our website.