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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3071-1 nss -- security update

Date Reported:

11 Nov 2014

Affected Packages:

nss

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-1544.

More information:

In nss, a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications, Tyson Smith and Jesse Schwartzentruber discovered a use-after-free vulnerability that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering the improper removal of an NSSCertificate structure from a trust domain.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u3.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.16.3-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.16.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your nss packages.