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USN-2063-1: NSS vulnerability

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USN-2063-1: NSS vulnerability

Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Published

12/20/2013

Created

07/25/2018

Added

12/20/2013

Modified

07/09/2020

Description

It was discovered that an intermediate certificate was incorrectly issuedby a subordinate certificate authority of a trusted CA included in NSS.This intermediate certificate could be used in a man-in-the-middle attack,and has such been marked as untrusted in this update. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. After a standard system update you need to restart any applications thatuse NSS, such as Evolution and Chromium, to make all the necessary changes. LP: 1263135

Solution(s)

ubuntu-upgrade-libnss3
ubuntu-upgrade-libnss3-1d

References

USN-2063-1

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