USN-1687-1: NSS vulnerability
14 January 2013
Fraudulent security certificates could allow sensitive information to be exposed when accessing the Internet.
Releases
Packages
- nss - Network Security Service library
Details
Two intermediate CA certificates were mis-issued by the TURKTRUST
certificate authority. If a remote attacker were able to perform a
machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to view sensitive
information.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 10.04
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
Related notices
- USN-1681-2: thunderbird
- USN-1681-1: firefox
- USN-1687-2: libnspr4-0d, nspr