VULNERABILITY

Oracle Linux: CVE-2017-5461: ELSA-2017-1101: nss security update (CRITICAL) (Multiple Advisories)

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Oracle Linux: CVE-2017-5461: ELSA-2017-1101: nss security update (CRITICAL) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
04/19/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/20/2017
Modified
12/05/2024

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. An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the way NSS performed certain Base64-decoding operations. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted certificate which, when parsed by NSS, could cause it to crash or execute arbitrary code, using the permissions of the user running an application compiled against the NSS library.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-nss
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-nss-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-nss-pkcs11-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-nss-sysinit
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-nss-tools
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-nss-util
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-nss-util-devel

References

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