USN-3898-1: NSS vulnerability
USN-3898-1: NSS vulnerability nss vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 18.10 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary NSS could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic. Software Description nss – Network Security Service library Details Hanno Böck and Damian Poddebniak discovered that NSS incorrectly handled certain CMS functions. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NSS to crash, resulting in a denial of service. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 18.10 libnss3 – 2:3.36.1-1ubuntu1.2 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS libnss3 – 2:3.35-2ubuntu2.2 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS libnss3 – 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.5 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS libnss3 – 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.5 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. After a standard system update you need to restart any [ more… ]