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USN-4397-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2019-17023)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2020-06-16 16:56 – Updated: 2026-04-22 07:36 – Source website
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nss vulnerabilities
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It was discovered that NSS incorrectly handled the TLS State Machine. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NSS to hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 19.10. (CVE-2019-17023)

Cesar Pereida Garcia discovered that NSS incorrectly handled DSA key generation. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a timing attack and recover DSA keys. (CVE-2020-12399)

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  "published": "2020-06-16T16:56:43Z",
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