CVE-2013-1620 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2013-1620?

CVE-2013-1620 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 8 Feb 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The TLS implementation in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) does not properly consider timing side-channel attacks on a noncompliant MAC check operation during the processing of malformed CBC padding, which allows remote attackers to conduct distinguishing attacks and plaintext-recovery attacks via statistical analysis of timing data for crafted packets, a related issue to CVE-2013-0169.

Weakness: CWE-203

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1620?

It affects 15 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Mozilla Network Security Services, Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center, Oracle Glassfish Communications Server, Oracle Glassfish Server, Oracle Iplanet Web Proxy Server and 9 more.

How do I fix CVE-2013-1620?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2013-1620 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1620 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1620, GHSA-4pp6-m86c-j4gj.