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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-1979: Security patch for nspr, nss-util, nss, nss-softokn (ALAS-2016-702)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-1979: Security patch for nspr, nss-util, nss, nss-softokn (ALAS-2016-702)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/13/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/18/2016
Modified
04/16/2020

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the PK11_ImportDERPrivateKeyInfoAndReturnKey function in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.21.1, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted key data with DER encoding.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade--nss
  • amazon-linux-upgrade--nss-softokn
  • amazon-linux-upgrade--nss-util
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-nspr

References

  • RHSA-2016:0591
  • RHSA-2016:0684
  • RHSA-2016:0685
  • ALAS-2016-702
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0727
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0777
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0820
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0909
  • DLA-472-1
  • DLA-480-1
  • DSA-3576
  • DSA-3688
  • 84221
  • 1035215
  • USN-2973-1
  • GLSA-201605-06
  • CVE-2016-1979
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