Amazon Linux 1 (EOL) Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-385
Advisory Released Date: 2014-07-23
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-19
Severity:
Critical
Issue Overview:
Use-after-free vulnerability in the CERT_DestroyCertificate function in libnss3.so in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) 3.x, as used in Firefox before 31.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.7, and Thunderbird before 24.7, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors that trigger certain improper removal of an NSSCertificate structure from a trust domain.
Affected Packages:
nss
Issue Correction:
Run yum update nss to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
nss-tools-3.16.0-1.36.amzn1.i686
nss-devel-3.16.0-1.36.amzn1.i686
nss-sysinit-3.16.0-1.36.amzn1.i686
nss-debuginfo-3.16.0-1.36.amzn1.i686
nss-3.16.0-1.36.amzn1.i686
nss-pkcs11-devel-3.16.0-1.36.amzn1.i686
src:
nss-3.16.0-1.36.amzn1.src
x86_64:
nss-tools-3.16.0-1.36.amzn1.x86_64
nss-debuginfo-3.16.0-1.36.amzn1.x86_64
nss-sysinit-3.16.0-1.36.amzn1.x86_64
nss-pkcs11-devel-3.16.0-1.36.amzn1.x86_64
nss-3.16.0-1.36.amzn1.x86_64
nss-devel-3.16.0-1.36.amzn1.x86_64