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SUSE: 2014:1230-2 Critical: Mozilla NSS TLS Vulnerability Mitigation

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Calendar Grey September 27, 2014
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SUSE releases a security notice for mozila-nss, tackling a serious RSA certificate impersonation vulnerability found in their application.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

Mozilla NSS was updated to version 3.16.5 to fix a RSA certificate forgery issue. MFSA 2014-73 / CVE-2014-1568: Antoine Delignat-Lavaud, security researcher at Inria Paris in team Prosecco, reported an issue in Network Security Services (NSS) libraries affecting all versions. He discovered that NSS is vulnerable to a variant of a signature forgery attack previously published by Daniel Bleichenbacher. This is due to lenient parsing of ASN.1 values involved in a signature and could lead to the forging of RSA certificates. The Advanced Threat Research team at Intel Security also independently discovered and reported this issue. Security Issues: * CVE-2014-1568 Patch Instructions:

References

#897890

Cross- CVE-2014-1568

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1568.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=897890

https://scc.suse.com:443/patches/

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2014:1220-1
Rating: important

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