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Debian: DSA-3998-1 Critical: NSS Use-After-Free DoS Risk

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Calendar Grey October 11, 2017
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Malicious actors could take advantage of a memory leak vulnerability in the openssl framework, resulting in potential system crashes or unauthorized code running.
Martin Thomson discovered that nss, the Mozilla Network Security Service library, is prone to a use-after-free vulnerability in the TLS 1.2 implementation when handshake hashes are...
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Summary

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed
in version 2:3.26-1+debu8u3.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2:3.26.2-1.1+deb9u1.

For the testing distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed
in version 2:3.33-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2:3.33-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your nss packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: nss
CVE ID: CVE-2017-7805

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