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- CVEs with nessus.description==An update for nss and nss-util is now available for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security
impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base
score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each
vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to
support the cross-platform development of security-enabled client and
server applications.
The nss-util packages provide utilities for use with the Network
Security Services (NSS) libraries.
The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version:
nss (3.28.4), nss-util (3.28.4).
Security Fix(es) :
* An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the way NSS performed
certain Base64-decoding operations. An attacker could use this flaw to
create a specially crafted certificate which, when parsed by NSS,
could cause it to crash or execute arbitrary code, using the
permissions of the user running an application compiled against the
NSS library. (CVE-2017-5461)
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this
issue. Upstream acknowledges Ronald Crane as the original reporter.
Note that Tenable Network Security has attempted to extract the
preceding description block directly from the corresponding Red Hat
security advisory. Virtuozzo provides no description for VZLSA
advisories. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format
it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Max CVSS | 0 |
Min CVSS | 0 |
Total Count | 2 |
| ID | CVSS | Summary | Last (major) update | Published |
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