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Out-of-Bounds Affecting nspr package, versions <0:4.25.0-2.45.amzn1

medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.4% (74th percentile)
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NVD
9.8 critical
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SUSE
6.8 medium
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Red Hat
8.1 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN201803-NSPR-1726613
  • published 27 Sep 2021
  • disclosed 22 Oct 2020
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Introduced: 22 Oct 2020

CVE-2019-17006 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-119 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-20 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 nspr to version 0:4.25.0-2.45.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2021-1522.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nspr package and not the nspr package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.46, several cryptographic primitives had missing length checks. In cases where the application calling the library did not perform a sanity check on the inputs it could result in a crash due to a buffer overflow.