Advisories » MGASA-2014-0024

Updated nss packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 21 Jan 2014
Modification date: 21 Jan 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3
CVE: CVE-2013-1740

Description

Updated nss packages fix security vulnerability:

The ssl_Do1stHandshake function in sslsecur.c in libssl in Mozilla
Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.15.4, when the TLS False
Start feature is enabled, allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof
SSL servers by using an arbitrary X.509 certificate during certain
handshake traffic (CVE-2013-1740).
                

References

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/NSS/NSS_3.15.4_release_notes
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12342
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1740

SRPMS

3/core

• nss-3.15.4-1.mga3