Summary
Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that NSS incorrectly handled state
transitions for the TLS state machine. If a remote attacker were able to
perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to skip
the ServerKeyExchange message and remove the forward-secrecy property.
(CVE-2015-2721)
Watson Ladd discovered that NSS incorrectly handled Elliptical Curve
Cryptography (ECC) multiplication. A remote attacker could possibly use
this issue to spoof ECDSA signatures. (CVE-2015-2730)
As a security improvement, this update modifies NSS behaviour to reject DH
key sizes below 768 bits, preventing a possible downgrade attack.
This update also refreshes the NSS package to version 3.19.2 which includes
the latest CA certificate bundle.
Fixed packages 1
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS | nss | 2:3.19.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 |
Vulnerabilities 2
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Unscored —
Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.19, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31…
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Unscored —
Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.19.1, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before …