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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-5461: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 11, 2017
Added
Sep 20, 2017
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.21.4, 3.22.x through 3.28.x before 3.28.4, 3.29.x before 3.29.5, and 3.30.x before 3.30.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging incorrect base64 operations.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-nss
Title
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