Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 16.10 / 17.04 : nss vulnerabilities (USN-3270-1)
High Nessus Plugin ID 99724
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
Description
Karthik Bhargavan and Gaetan Leurent discovered that the DES and Triple DES ciphers were vulnerable to birthday attacks. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to obtain clear text data from long encrypted sessions. This update causes NSS to limit use of the same symmetric key. (CVE-2016-2183)
It was discovered that NSS incorrectly handled Base64 decoding. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause NSS to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2017-5461)
This update refreshes the NSS package to version 3.28.4 which includes the latest CA certificate bundle.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected libnss3 package.