USN-3898-1: NSS vulnerability

nss vulnerability

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

• Ubuntu 18.10
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

NSS could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Software Description

• nss - Network Security Service library

Details

Hanno Böck and Damian Poddebniak discovered that NSS incorrectly handled certain CMS functions. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NSS to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.10

libnss3 - 2:3.36.1-1ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

libnss3 - 2:3.35-2ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

libnss3 - 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.5

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

libnss3 - 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.5

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, to make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2018-18508

from Ubuntu Security Notices https://ift.tt/2XqrWjo