Ubuntu Security Notice 2361-1 - Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and others discovered that NSS incorrectly handled parsing ASN.1 values. An attacker could use this issue to forge RSA certificates.
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2361-1
September 24, 2014
nss vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Summary:
Fraudulent security certificates could allow sensitive information to
be exposed when accessing the Internet.
Software Description:
- nss: Network Security Service library
Details:
Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and others discovered that NSS incorrectly handled
parsing ASN.1 values. An attacker could use this issue to forge RSA
certificates.
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libnss3 2:3.17.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
libnss3 3.17.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
libnss3-1d 3.17.1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug
fixes. After a standard system update you need to restart any applications
that use NSS, such as Evolution and Chromium, to make all the necessary
changes.
References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2361-1
CVE-2014-1568
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nss/2:3.17.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nss/3.17.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nss/3.17.1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1