Andrew Tinits reported a potentially exploitable buffer overflow in the Mozilla Network Security Service library (nss). With a specially crafted request a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.12.8-1+squeeze7. For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.14.5-1. For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.15.3-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.15.3-1. We recommend that you upgrade your nss packages.

nss is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications.

nss on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2800.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25