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Debian DSA-2994-1 Moderate: NSS Certificate Issues and Fixes

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Calendar Grey July 31, 2014
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2994-1 alerts of critical vulnerabilities in the NSS package. Users are urged to update promptly to enhance security and prevent breaches
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in nss, the Mozilla Network Security Service library: CVE-2013-1741

Summary

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in nss, the Mozilla Network
Security Service library:

CVE-2013-1741

Runaway memset in certificate parsing on 64-bit computers leading to
a crash by attempting to write 4Gb of nulls.

CVE-2013-5606

Certificate validation with the verifylog mode did not return
validation errors, but instead expected applications to determine
the status by looking at the log.

CVE-2014-1491

Ticket handling protection mechanisms bypass due to the lack of
restriction of public values in Diffie-Hellman key exchanges.

CVE-2014-1492

Incorrect IDNA domain name matching for wildcard certificates could
allow specially-crafted invalid certificates to be considered as
valid.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie), and the unstable distribution (sid),
these problems have been fixed in version 2:3.16-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your nss packages.

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Package: nss
CVE ID: CVE-2013-1741 CVE-2013-5606 CVE-2014-1491 CVE-2014-1492

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