In nss, a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications, Tyson Smith and Jesse Schwartzentruber discovered a use-after-free vulnerability that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering the improper removal of an NSSCertificate structure from a trust domain.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u3. For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.16.3-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.16.3-1. 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/2014/dsa-3071.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25