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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for mod24_nss (ALAS-2016-650) (CVE-2015-5244)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for mod24_nss (ALAS-2016-650) (CVE-2015-5244)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/12/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/12/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

It was found that the parsing of the NSSCipherSuite option of mod24_nss, which accepts OpenSSL-style cipherstrings, is flawed. If the option is used to disable insecure ciphersuites using the common "!" syntax, it will actually enable those insecure ciphersuites. (CVE-2015-5244 )

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-mod24_nss
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-mod24_nss-debuginfo

References

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