Updated nss packages fix CVE-2016-1950

2016-03-1621:07:23

Gentoo Foundation

advisories.mageia.org

8.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.01 Low

EPSS

Percentile

83.5%

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Updated rootcerts and nss packages fix security vulnerability: A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way NSS parsed certain ASN.1 structures. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted certificate which, when parsed by NSS, could cause it to crash, or execute arbitrary code, using the permissions of the user running an application compiled against the NSS library (CVE-2016-1950). This issue was supposed to have been fixed in MGASA-2016-0105, but Mozilla did not include the fix until the following nss releases.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Mageia5noarchrootcerts< 20160225.00-1rootcerts-20160225.00-1.mga5
Mageia5noarchnss< 3.23.0-1nss-3.23.0-1.mga5