DSA-3998: -1 nss -- security update

Published Oct 11, 2017
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Updated

Martin Thomson discovered that nss, the Mozilla Network Security Service library, is prone to a use-after-free vulnerability in the TLS 1.2 implementation when handshake hashes are generated. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause an application using the nss library to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potentially to execute arbitrary code.

Affected Software

2 affected components
debian/nss
debian/nss

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade nss to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Patch DSA-3998-1

Event History

Oct 11, 2017
Advisory Published
12:00 AM

Child vulnerabilities

Contains the following vulnerabilities.

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