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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-5461: Security patch for nss, nss-util (ALAS-2017-825)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-5461: Security patch for nss, nss-util (ALAS-2017-825)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/20/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/03/2017
Modified
10/14/2022

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(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade--nss-util
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-nss

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