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Gentoo Linux Vulnerability Advisory: NSS Access Problems GLSA-201701-46

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Calendar Grey January 19, 2017
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Uncover Gentoo GLSA 201701-45 pertaining to Mozilla NSS: criticality, various vulnerabilities, and remediation guidelines.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in NSS, the worst of which could allow remote attackers to obtain access to private key information

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in NSS. Please review the CVE identifiers and technical papers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo access issue man-in-the-middle normal nss

Resolution

All NSS users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/nss-3.28"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2015-2721 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-2721 [ 2 ] CVE-2015-4000 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-4000 [ 3 ] CVE-2015-7575 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-7575 [ 4 ] CVE-2016-1938 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-1938 [ 5 ] CVE-2016-5285 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-5285 [ 6 ] CVE-2016-8635 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-8635 [ 7 ] CVE-2016-9074 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-9074 [ 8 ] SLOTH Attack Technical Paper

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-46
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS): Multiple
Date: January 19, 2017
Bugs: #550288, #571086, #604916
ID: 201701-46

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo access issue man-in-the-middle normal nss

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in NSS, the worst of which could allow remote attackers to obtain access to private key information.

Background

The Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS) is a library implementing security features like SSL v.2/v.3, TLS, PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12, S/MIME and X.509 certificates.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-libs/nss < 3.28 >= 3.28

Impact

===== Remote attackers could conduct man-in-the-middle attacks, obtain access to private key information, or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.