RHEL 6 / 7 : nss (RHSA-2016:0007) (SLOTH)

Updated nss packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available...

RedHat Update for nss RHSA-2016:0007-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : NSS vulnerability (USN-2864-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2864-1 advisory. Karthikeyan Bhargavan and Gaetan Leurent discovered that NSS incorrectly allowed MD5 to be used for TLS 1.2 connections. If a remote attacker were able to perform...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2864-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

CentOS 6 / 7 : nss (CESA-2016:0007) (SLOTH)

Updated nss packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : nss (ELSA-2016-0007)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2016-0007 advisory. 3.19.1-8.0.1 - Added nss-vendor.patch to change vendor 3.19.1-8 - Prevent TLS 1.2 Transcript Collision attacks against MD5 in key exchange protocol -...

nss security update

3.19.1-8.0.1 - Added nss-vendor.patch to change vendor 3.19.1-8 - Prevent TLS 1.2 Transcript Collision attacks against MD5 in key exchange protocol - Resolves: Bug 1289881...

openSUSE Security Update : mozilla-nss (openSUSE-2015-978) (SLOTH)

This update to mozilla-nss 3.20.2 fixes the following issues : - CVE-2015-7575: MD5 signatures accepted within TLS 1.2 ServerKeyExchange in server signature boo952810 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

CVE-2015-7575

Mozilla Network Security Services NSS before 3.20.2, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0.2 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.5.2, does not reject MD5 signatures in Server Key Exchange messages in TLS 1.2 Handshake Protocol traffic, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof...

FreeBSD : NSS -- MD5 downgrade in TLS 1.2 signatures (10f7bc76-0335-4a88-b391-0b05b3a8ce1c) (SLOTH)

The Mozilla Project reports : Security researcher Karthikeyan Bhargavan reported an issue in Network Security Services NSS where MD5 signatures in the server signature within the TLS 1.2 ServerKeyExchange message are still accepted. This is an issue since NSS has officially disallowed the accepti...

Small subgroup attack in Mozilla NSS

tl;dr While the TLS servers attacks has been pretty much studied and fixed see e.g. https://www.secure-resumption.com/ and https://weakdh.org/ the situation with the TLS clients is was not ideal and can be improved. Here I report a Small subgroup attack for TLS clients that I performed against...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openldap on SL7.x x86_64 (20151119)

A flaw was found in the way OpenLDAP parsed OpenSSL-style cipher strings. As a result, OpenLDAP could potentially use ciphers that were not intended to be enabled. CVE-2015-3276 The openldap packages have been upgraded to upstream version 2.4.40, which provides a number of bug fixes and one...

GNU C Library Name Service Switch Privilege Bypass Vulnerability

GNU C Library is an open source, free C compiler released under the LGPL license. A security vulnerability in the 'getcontents' function in the nssfiles/files-XXX.c file in the Name Service Switch NSS of the GNU C Library allows a local attacker to exploit a specially crafted NSS file database to...

CVE-2015-5277

The getcontents function in nssfiles/files-XXX.c in the Name Service Switch NSS in GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.20 might allow local users to cause a denial of service heap corruption or gain privileges via a long line in the NSS files database...

Heap overflow

The getcontents function in nssfiles/files-XXX.c in the Name Service Switch NSS in GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.20 might allow local users to cause a denial of service heap corruption or gain privileges via a long line in the NSS files database...

CVE-2015-5277

CVE-2015-5277 affects the GNU C Library (glibc) NSS get_contents backend in nss_files, where a long line in the NSS files database can trigger heap corruption and enable local privilege escalation. Engines in connected advisories confirm this vulnerability existed in glibc prior to version 2.20 a...

CVE-2015-5277

The getcontents function in nssfiles/files-XXX.c in the Name Service Switch NSS in GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.20 might allow local users to cause a denial of service heap corruption or gain privileges via a long line in the NSS files database...

CVE-2015-5277

The getcontents function in nssfiles/files-XXX.c in the Name Service Switch NSS in GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.20 might allow local users to cause a denial of service heap corruption or gain privileges via a long line in the NSS files database...

CVE-2015-5277

The getcontents function in nssfiles/files-XXX.c in the Name Service Switch NSS in GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.20 might allow local users to cause a denial of service heap corruption or gain privileges via a long line in the NSS files database...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5277

The getcontents function in nssfiles/files-XXX.c in the Name Service Switch NSS in GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.20 might allow local users to cause a denial of service heap corruption or gain privileges via a long line in the NSS files database...