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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1138-1 nss -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

19 Oct 2017

Affected Packages:

nss

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-7805.

More information:

Martin Thomson discovered that nss, the Mozilla Network Security Service library, is prone to a use-after-free vulnerability in the TLS 1.2 implementation when handshake hashes are generated. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause an application using the nss library to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potentially to execute arbitrary code.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 2:3.26-1+debu7u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your nss packages.

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