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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2994-1 (nss - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in nss, the Mozilla Network Security Service library: CVE-2013-1741 Runaway memset in certificate parsing on 64-bit computers leading to a crash by attempting to write 4Gb of nulls. CVE-2013-5606 Certificate validation with the verifylog mode did not return validation errors, but instead expected applications to determine the status by looking at the log. CVE-2014-1491 Ticket handling protection mechanisms bypass due to the lack of restriction of public values in Diffie-Hellman key exchanges. CVE-2014-1492 Incorrect IDNA domain name matching for wildcard certificates could allow specially-crafted invalid certificates to be considered as valid.
Affected Software
Affected Software
nss on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u1. For the testing distribution (jessie), and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2:3.16-1. We recommend that you upgrade your nss packages.