nss, nss-util: two vulnerabilities
| Package(s): | nss nss-util | CVE #(s): | CVE-2016-5285 CVE-2016-8635 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Created: | November 16, 2016 | Updated: | November 16, 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description: | From the Red Hat advisory:
* A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way NSS handled invalid Diffie-Hellman keys. A remote client could use this flaw to crash a TLS/SSL server using NSS. (CVE-2016-5285) * It was found that Diffie Hellman Client key exchange handling in NSS was vulnerable to small subgroup confinement attack. An attacker could use this flaw to recover private keys by confining the client DH key to small subgroup of the desired group. (CVE-2016-8635) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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