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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.