USN-2343-1

Tyson Smith and Jesse Schwartzentruber discovered that NSS contained a race condition when performing certificate validation. An attacker could use this issue to cause NSS to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / nss

Package

Name: nss
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/nss@2:3.15.4-1ubuntu7.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2:3.15.4-1ubuntu7.1

Affected versions

2:3.*

2:3.15.1-1ubuntu1

2:3.15.2-1

2:3.15.3-1

2:3.15.3.1-1

2:3.15.3.1-1.1

2:3.15.3.1-1.1ubuntu1

2:3.15.4-1ubuntu3

2:3.15.4-1ubuntu4

2:3.15.4-1ubuntu5

2:3.15.4-1ubuntu6

2:3.15.4-1ubuntu7

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libnss3",
            "binary_version": "2:3.15.4-1ubuntu7.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libnss3-1d",
            "binary_version": "2:3.15.4-1ubuntu7.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libnss3-dev",
            "binary_version": "2:3.15.4-1ubuntu7.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libnss3-nssdb",
            "binary_version": "2:3.15.4-1ubuntu7.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libnss3-tools",
            "binary_version": "2:3.15.4-1ubuntu7.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-1544",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}