vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-5285: Security patch for nss-util, nss, nss-softokn (ALAS-2016-774)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 16, 2016
Added
Dec 16, 2016
Modified
Apr 16, 2020

Description

A Null pointer dereference vulnerability exists in Mozilla Network Security Services due to a missing NULL check in PK11_SignWithSymKey / ssl3_ComputeRecordMACConstantTime, which could let a remote malicious user cause a Denial of Service.

Solutions

amazon-linux-upgrade--nssamazon-linux-upgrade--nss-softoknamazon-linux-upgrade-nss-util
Title
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