Summary
It was discovered that NSPR, Netscape Portable Runtime library, could crash an application using the library when parsing a certificate that causes an integer overflow. This flaw only affects 64-bit systems.
Solution
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 4.8.6-1+squeeze1.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u1.
For the testing distribution (jessie), and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2:4.10.2-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your nspr packages.
Affected
nspr on Debian Linux
Detection
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2013-5607 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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