vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-4231-1 (CVE-2019-17006): NSS vulnerability

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jan 8, 2020
Added
Jan 9, 2020
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

In Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.46, several cryptographic primitives had missing length checks. In cases where the application calling the library did not perform a sanity check on the inputs it could result in a crash due to a buffer overflow.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libnss3ubuntu-upgrade-libnss3
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