USN-2924-1: NSS vulnerability<\/p>\n
9th March, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its NSS could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted Francis Gabriel discovered that NSS incorrectly handled decoding certain The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following To update your system, please follow these instructions: After a standard system update you need to restart any applications that CVE-2016-1950<\/a><\/p>\n Source: USN-2924-1: NSS vulnerability<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" USN-2924-1: NSS vulnerability Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2924-1 9th March, 2016 nss vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 15.10 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary NSS could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted input. Software description nss – Network Security Service library Details Francis Gabriel discovered that NSS incorrectly handled decoding certainASN.1 data. An remote attacker could use this issue to cause NSS to crash,resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 15.10: libnss3 2:3.21-0ubuntu0.15.10.2 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: libnss3 2:3.21-0ubuntu0.14.04.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: libnss3 2:3.21-0ubuntu0.12.04.3 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Security\/Upgrades. After a standard system update you need to restart any applications thatuse NSS, [ more… ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[586],"tags":[587],"class_list":["post-6321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu-usn","tag-ubuntu-usn"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6322,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321\/revisions\/6322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}nss vulnerability<\/h3>\n
\n derivatives:<\/p>\n\n
Summary<\/h3>\n
\ninput.\n<\/p>\nSoftware description<\/h3>\n
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\n – Network Security Service library<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nDetails<\/h3>\n
ASN.1 data. An remote attacker could use this issue to cause NSS to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.<\/p>\nUpdate instructions<\/h3>\n
\npackage version:<\/p>\n\n
\n
\n 2:3.21-0ubuntu0.15.10.2<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
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\n 2:3.21-0ubuntu0.14.04.2<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
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\n 2:3.21-0ubuntu0.12.04.3<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
\nhttps:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Security\/Upgrades<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n
use NSS, such as Evolution and Chromium, to make all the necessary changes.<\/p>\nReferences<\/h3>\n