USN-3270-1: nss Ubuntu

CVSS: UnknownPublished
Published 27-04-2017Last modified 01-06-2026
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Vulnerability summary

USN-3270-1 is a vulnerability in nss Ubuntu with no CVSS score yet.

Overall risk
0/100
0100
Minimal · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
Not scored
010
No CVSS score recorded
EPSS score
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0%100%
No EPSS score yet
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 2 · Downstream 0 · Related 2
CVE-2016-2183CVE-2017-5461

Timeline

  1. 27-04-2017
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 01-06-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

nss vulnerabilities Karthik Bhargavan and Gaetan Leurent discovered that the DES and Triple DES ciphers were vulnerable to birthday attacks. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to obtain clear text data from long encrypted sessions. This update causes NSS to limit use of the same symmetric key. (CVE-2016-2183) It was discovered that NSS incorrectly handled Base64 decoding. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause NSS to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5461) This update refreshes the NSS package to version 3.28.4 which includes the latest CA certificate bundle.

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Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

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Affected systems

Ubuntu1 product
  • nss< 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | < 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

1 vendor · 1 product

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