Security Information / 2013 / Security Information -- DSA-2800-1 nss

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2800-1 nss -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

25 Nov 2013

Affected Packages:

nss

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-5605.

More information:

Andrew Tinits reported a potentially exploitable buffer overflow in the Mozilla Network Security Service library (nss). With a specially crafted request a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.12.8-1+squeeze7.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.14.5-1.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.15.3-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.15.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your nss packages.