USN-3270-1

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3270-1
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3270-1.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/USN-3270-1
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Published
2017-04-27T16:47:55.142153Z
Modified
2025-10-13T04:34:24Z
Summary
nss vulnerabilities
Details

Karthik Bhargavan and Gaetan Leurent discovered that the DES and Triple DES ciphers were vulnerable to birthday attacks. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to obtain clear text data from long encrypted sessions. This update causes NSS to limit use of the same symmetric key. (CVE-2016-2183)

It was discovered that NSS incorrectly handled Base64 decoding. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause NSS to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5461)

This update refreshes the NSS package to version 3.28.4 which includes the latest CA certificate bundle.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / nss

Package

Name
nss
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/nss@2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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
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
2:3.21-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
2:3.23-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
2:3.26.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libnss3",
            "binary_version": "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libnss3-1d",
            "binary_version": "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libnss3-dev",
            "binary_version": "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libnss3-nssdb",
            "binary_version": "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libnss3-tools",
            "binary_version": "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific 

{
    "cves_map": {
        "cves": [
            {
                "severity": [
                    {
                        "type": "CVSS_V3",
                        "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
                    },
                    {
                        "type": "CVSS_V3",
                        "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
                    },
                    {
                        "type": "Ubuntu",
                        "score": "low"
                    }
                ],
                "id": "CVE-2016-2183"
            },
            {
                "severity": [
                    {
                        "type": "CVSS_V3",
                        "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                    },
                    {
                        "type": "Ubuntu",
                        "score": "medium"
                    }
                ],
                "id": "CVE-2017-5461"
            }
        ],
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
    }
}

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / nss

Package

Name
nss
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/nss@2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Affected versions

2:3.*

2:3.19.2-1ubuntu1
2:3.19.2.1-0ubuntu1
2:3.21-1ubuntu2
2:3.21-1ubuntu3
2:3.21-1ubuntu4
2:3.23-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
2:3.26.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libnss3",
            "binary_version": "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libnss3-1d",
            "binary_version": "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libnss3-dev",
            "binary_version": "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libnss3-nssdb",
            "binary_version": "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libnss3-tools",
            "binary_version": "2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific 

{
    "cves_map": {
        "cves": [
            {
                "severity": [
                    {
                        "type": "CVSS_V3",
                        "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
                    },
                    {
                        "type": "CVSS_V3",
                        "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
                    },
                    {
                        "type": "Ubuntu",
                        "score": "low"
                    }
                ],
                "id": "CVE-2016-2183"
            },
            {
                "severity": [
                    {
                        "type": "CVSS_V3",
                        "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                    },
                    {
                        "type": "Ubuntu",
                        "score": "medium"
                    }
                ],
                "id": "CVE-2017-5461"
            }
        ],
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS"
    }
}