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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3186-1 nss -- security update

Date Reported:

13 Mar 2015

Affected Packages:

nss

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 773625.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-1569.

More information:

It was discovered that the Mozilla Network Security Service library (nss) incorrectly handled certain ASN.1 lengths. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a data-smuggling attack.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u4.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.17.2-1.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.17.2-1.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your nss packages.