Executive Summary

Summary
Title NSS vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-4060-2 First vendor Publication 2019-07-16
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2019-07-16
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector :
Cvss Base Score N/A Attack Range N/A
Cvss Impact Score N/A Attack Complexity N/A
Cvss Expoit Score N/A Authentication N/A
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.04 ESM - Ubuntu 12.04 ESM

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in NSS.

Software Description: - nss: Network Security Service library

Details:

USN-4060-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in nss. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

Henry Corrigan-Gibbs discovered that NSS incorrectly handled importing
certain curve25519 private keys. An attacker could use this issue to cause
NSS to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain
sensitive information. (CVE-2019-11719)

Jonas Allmann discovered that NSS incorrectly handled certain p256-ECDH
public keys. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NSS to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2019-11729)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:
libnss3 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.5+esm1

Ubuntu 12.04 ESM:
libnss3 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.4

After a standard system update you need to restart any applications that use NSS, such as Evolution, to make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4060-2
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4060-1
CVE-2019-11719, CVE-2019-11729

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-4060-2

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Date Informations
2019-07-16 21:18:50
  • First insertion