USN-2924-1

Francis Gabriel discovered that NSS incorrectly handled decoding certain 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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / nss

Package

Name: nss
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/nss@2:3.21-0ubuntu0.14.04.2?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2:3.21-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

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

2:3.15.4-1ubuntu7.1

2:3.17-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

2:3.17.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

2:3.17.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

2:3.17.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

2:3.19.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

2:3.19.2.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

2:3.19.2.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

2:3.21-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "2:3.21-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "binary_name": "libnss3"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:3.21-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "binary_name": "libnss3-1d"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:3.21-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "binary_name": "libnss3-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:3.21-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "binary_name": "libnss3-nssdb"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:3.21-0ubuntu0.14.04.2",
            "binary_name": "libnss3-tools"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-1950",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}