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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3033-1 (nss - security update)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

9 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

Antoine Delignat-Lavaud from Inria discovered an issue in the way NSS (the Mozilla Network Security Service library) was parsing ASN.1 data used in signatures, making it vulnerable to a signature forgery attack. An attacker could craft ASN.1 data to forge RSA certificates with a valid certification chain to a trusted CA.

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), this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u2. For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.17.1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.17.1. We recommend that you upgrade your nss packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)