nss vulnerabilities

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-17023   CVE-2020-12399  

Several security issues were fixed in NSS.

It was discovered that NSS incorrectly handled the TLS State Machine. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NSS to hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 19.10. (CVE-2019-17023)

16 June 2020

nss vulnerabilities

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

  • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 19.10
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in NSS.

Software Description

  • nss - Network Security Service library

Details

It was discovered that NSS incorrectly handled the TLS State Machine. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NSS to hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 19.10. (CVE-2019-17023)

Cesar Pereida Garcia discovered that NSS incorrectly handled DSA key generation. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a timing attack and recover DSA keys. (CVE-2020-12399)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
libnss3 - 2:3.49.1-1ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu 19.10
libnss3 - 2:3.45-1ubuntu2.3
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
libnss3 - 2:3.35-2ubuntu2.8
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
libnss3 - 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.11

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.

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