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Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2017-825
Advisory Release Date: 2017-04-27 00:04 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2017-04-27 19:52 Pacific
Severity:
Critical
Issue Overview:
An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the way NSS performed certain Base64-decoding operations. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted certificate which, when parsed by NSS, could cause it to crash or execute arbitrary code, using the permissions of the user running an application compiled against the NSS library. (CVE-2017-5461)
Upstream acknowledges Ronald Crane as the original reporter.
Affected Packages:
nss, nss-util
Issue Correction:
Run yum update nss to update your system.
Run yum update nss-util to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
nss-util-debuginfo-3.28.4-1.0.52.amzn1.i686
nss-util-3.28.4-1.0.52.amzn1.i686
nss-util-devel-3.28.4-1.0.52.amzn1.i686
nss-3.28.4-1.0.78.amzn1.i686
nss-pkcs11-devel-3.28.4-1.0.78.amzn1.i686
nss-debuginfo-3.28.4-1.0.78.amzn1.i686
nss-devel-3.28.4-1.0.78.amzn1.i686
nss-tools-3.28.4-1.0.78.amzn1.i686
nss-sysinit-3.28.4-1.0.78.amzn1.i686
src:
nss-util-3.28.4-1.0.52.amzn1.src
nss-3.28.4-1.0.78.amzn1.src
x86_64:
nss-util-3.28.4-1.0.52.amzn1.x86_64
nss-util-devel-3.28.4-1.0.52.amzn1.x86_64
nss-util-debuginfo-3.28.4-1.0.52.amzn1.x86_64
nss-sysinit-3.28.4-1.0.78.amzn1.x86_64
nss-debuginfo-3.28.4-1.0.78.amzn1.x86_64
nss-pkcs11-devel-3.28.4-1.0.78.amzn1.x86_64
nss-tools-3.28.4-1.0.78.amzn1.x86_64
nss-devel-3.28.4-1.0.78.amzn1.x86_64
nss-3.28.4-1.0.78.amzn1.x86_64