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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2962-1 nspr -- security update

Date Reported:

17 Jun 2014

Affected Packages:

nspr

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-1545.

More information:

Abhiskek Arya discovered an out of bounds write in the cvt_t() function of the NetScape Portable Runtime Library which could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2:4.10.6-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your nspr packages.