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Debian 11: DLA-3937-1 critical: nss memory issues and TLS handshake exploit

debian lts
Calendar Grey October 28, 2024
Dist Debian Esm H88
Debian LTS has rolled out an update for nss libraries that fixes critical security vulnerabilities, including memory corruption and TLS issues, enhancing security and stability
nss - Network Security Service libraries This is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications

Summary

This is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development
of security-enabled client and server applications. It can support SSLv2
and v4, TLS, PKCS #5, #7, #11, #12, S/MIME, X.509 v3 certificates and
other security standards.

Among other utilities, this package includes:
* certutil: manages certificate and key databases (cert7.db and key3.db)
* modutil: manages the database of PKCS11 modules (secmod.db)
* pk12util: imports/exports keys and certificates between the cert/key
databases and files in PKCS12 format.
* shlibsign: creates .chk files for use in FIPS mode.
* signtool: creates digitally-signed jar archives containing files and/or
code.
* ssltap: proxy requests for an SSL server and display the contents of
the messages exchanged between the client and server.

CVE-2024-0743

An unchecked return value in TLS handshake code could have caused
a potentially exploitable crash.

CVE-2024-6602

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Package: nss
Version: 2:3.61-1+deb11u4
CVE ID: CVE-2024-0743 CVE-2024-6602 CVE-2024-6609

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