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USN-2343-1: NSS vulnerability

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USN-2343-1: NSS vulnerability

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
07/23/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/19/2014
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CERT_DestroyCertificate function in libnss3.so in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) 3.x, as used in Firefox before 31.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.7, and Thunderbird before 24.7, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors that trigger certain improper removal of an NSSCertificate structure from a trust domain.

Solution(s)

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

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