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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM USN-5168-3 Moderate: NSS Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey December 1, 2021
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5168-3 outlines a vulnerability in NSS that may result in application crashes or enable unauthorized program execution.
NSS could be made to crash or run programs if it verified a specially crafted signature.

Summary

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Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 16.04 ESM: libnss3 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm1 Ubuntu 14.04 ESM: libnss3 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.5+esm9 After a standard system update you need to restart any applications that use NSS, such as Evolution, to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5168-3

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5168-1

CVE-2021-43527

December 01, 2021

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