Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity Affecting nss package, versions <2:3.26-1+debu8u10


0.0
critical

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    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-DEBIAN8-NSS-539879
  • published 27 Dec 2019
  • disclosed 22 Oct 2020

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 nss to version 2:3.26-1+debu8u10 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nss package and not the nss package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 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.