Updated nss packages fix CVE-2014-1568
Publication date: 26 Sep 2014Modification date: 26 Sep 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3 , 4
CVE: CVE-2014-1568
Description
Updated nss packages fix security vulnerability: Antoine Delignat-Lavaud, security researcher at Inria Paris in team Prosecco, reported an issue in Network Security Services (NSS) libraries affecting all versions. He discovered that NSS is vulnerable to a variant of a signature forgery attack previously published by Daniel Bleichenbacher. This is due to lenient parsing of ASN.1 values involved in a signature and could lead to the forging of RSA certificates (CVE-2014-1568).
References
SRPMS
3/core
- nss-3.17.1-1.mga3
4/core
- nss-3.17.1-1.1.mga4