USN-2063-1: NSS vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2063-1

20th December, 2013

nss vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 13.10


• Ubuntu 13.04


• Ubuntu 12.10


• 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

It was discovered that an intermediate certificate was incorrectly issued

by a subordinate certificate authority of a trusted CA included in NSS.

This intermediate certificate could be used in a man-in-the-middle attack,

and has such been marked as untrusted in this update.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:

Ubuntu 13.10:

libnss3 2:3.15.3.1-0ubuntu0.13.10.1

Ubuntu 13.04:

libnss3 2:3.15.3.1-0ubuntu0.13.04.1

Ubuntu 12.10:

libnss3 3.15.3.1-0ubuntu0.12.10.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

libnss3 3.15.3.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:

libnss3-1d 3.15.3.1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

LP: 1263135

via Ubuntu Security Notices http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2063-1/