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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-12384): NSS vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Sep 26, 2018
Added
Jan 16, 2019
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

When handling a SSLv2-compatible ClientHello request, the server doesn't generate a new random value but sends an all-zero value instead. This results in full malleability of the ClientHello for SSLv2 used for TLS 1.2 in all versions prior to NSS 3.39. This does not impact TLS 1.3.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-libnss3

References

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