USN-4417-2: NSS vulnerability
6 July 2020
NSS could be made to expose sensitive information.
Releases
Packages
- nss - Network Security Service library
Details
USN-4417-1 fixed a vulnerability in NSS. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.
Original advisory details:
Cesar Pereida, Billy Bob Brumley, Yuval Yarom, and Nicola Tuveri discovered
that NSS incorrectly handled RSA key generation. A local attacker could
possibly use this issue to perform a timing attack and recover RSA keys.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 12.04
After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-4417-1: libnss3-tools, nss, libnss3, libnss3-1d, libnss3-nssdb, libnss3-dev