Security Information / 2012 / Security Information -- DSA-2490-1 nss

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2490-1 nss -- denial of service

Date Reported:

07 Jun 2012

Affected Packages:

nss

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-0441.

More information:

Kaspar Brand discovered that Mozilla's Network Security Services (NSS) libraries did insufficient length checking in the QuickDER decoder, allowing to crash a program using the libraries.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.12.8-1+squeeze5.

For the testing distribution (wheezy) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.13.4-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your nss packages.