Summary
The remote host is missing an update to nss
announced via advisory DSA 2490-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202490-1
Insight
Kaspar Brand discovered that Mozilla's Network Security Services (NSS) library did insufficient length checking in the QuickDER decoder, allowing to crash a program using the library.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.12.8-1+squeeze5.
For the testing distribution (wheezy) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.13.4-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your nss packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2012-0441 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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