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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1857-1 nss -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

20 Jul 2019

Affected Packages:

nss

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-11719, CVE-2019-11729.

More information:

Vulnerabilities have been discovered in nss, the Mozilla Network Security Service library.

• CVE-2019-11719:

  Out-of-bounds read when importing curve25519 private key

  When importing a curve25519 private key in PKCS#8format with leading 0x00 bytes, it is possible to trigger an out-of-bounds read in the Network Security Services (NSS) library. This could lead to information disclosure.

• CVE-2019-11729:

  Empty or malformed p256-ECDH public keys may trigger a segmentation fault

  Empty or malformed p256-ECDH public keys may trigger a segmentation fault due values being improperly sanitized before being copied into memory and used.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 2:3.26-1+debu8u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your nss packages.

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