Debian Security Advisory
DLA-23-1 nss -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 31 Jul 2014
- Affected Packages:
- nss
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-1741, CVE-2013-5606, CVE-2014-1491, CVE-2014-1492.
- More information:
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- CVE-2013-1741
Runaway memset in certificate parsing on 64-bit computers leading to a crash by attempting to write 4Gb of nulls.
- CVE-2013-5606
Certificate validation with the verifylog mode did not return validation errors, but instead expected applications to determine the status by looking at the log.
- CVE-2014-1491
Ticket handling protection mechanisms bypass due to the lack of restriction of public values in Diffie-Hellman key exchanges.
- CVE-2014-1492
Incorrect IDNA domain name matching for wildcard certificates could allow specially-crafted invalid certificates to be considered as valid.
For Debian 6
Squeeze
, these issues have been fixed in nss version 3.12.8-1+squeeze8 - CVE-2013-1741