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USN-4417-1: NSS vulnerability

06 July 2020

NSS could be made to expose sensitive information.

Releases

Packages

  • nss - Network Security Service library

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 20.04
  • -
Ubuntu 19.10
  • -
Ubuntu 18.04
  • -
Ubuntu 16.04
  • -

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

References

Related notices

  • USN-4417-2: nss, libnss3-tools, libnss3, libnss3-1d, libnss3-nssdb, libnss3-dev