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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2490-1 (nss)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

11 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to nss announced via advisory DSA 2490-1.

Insight

Insight

Kaspar Brand discovered that Mozilla's Network Security Services (NSS) library did insufficient length checking in the QuickDER decoder, allowing to crash a program using the library. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.12.8-1+squeeze5. For the testing distribution (wheezy) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.13.4-3.

Solution

Solution

We recommend that you upgrade your nss packages.

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