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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: 2362-2 Urgent: TLS Vulnerability Mitigation

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Counterfeit credentials may compromise private information while browsing online. Ensure your Ubuntu software is updated promptly.
Fraudulent security certificates could allow sensitive information to be exposed when accessing the Internet.

Summary

Fraudulent security certificates could allow sensitive information to

be exposed when accessing the Internet.

Software Description:

- nss: Network Security Service library

Details:

Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and others discovered that NSS incorrectly handled

parsing ASN.1 values. An attacker could use this issue to forge RSA

certificates.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue ubuntu nss certificate exposure

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libnss3                         2:3.17.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libnss3                         3.17.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  libnss3-1d                      3.17.1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug
fixes. After a standard system update you need to restart any applications
that use NSS, such as Evolution and Chromium, to make all the necessary
changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2361-1

CVE-2014-1568

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September 24, 2014

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue ubuntu nss certificate exposure

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nss/2:3.17.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nss/3.17.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nss/3.17.1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

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