Ubuntu: 2903-1 Moderate: NSS Sensitive Information Exposure

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February 17, 2016

NSS could be made to expose sensitive information.

Summary

NSS could be made to expose sensitive information.

Software Description:

- nss: Network Security Service library

Details:

Hanno Böck discovered that NSS incorrectly handled certain division

functions, possibly leading to cryptographic weaknesses. (CVE-2015-1938)

This update also refreshes the NSS package to version 3.21 which includes

the latest CA certificate bundle, and removes the SPI CA.

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate threat information exposure ubuntu nss

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.10:
  libnss3                         2:3.21-0ubuntu0.15.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libnss3                         2:3.21-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libnss3                         2:3.21-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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.