USN-2063-1: NSS vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 13.10
• Ubuntu 13.04
• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• nss - Network Security Service library

Details

It was discovered that an intermediate certificate was incorrectly issued
by a subordinate certificate authority of a trusted CA included in NSS.
This intermediate certificate could be used in a machine-in-the-middle attack,
and has such been marked as untrusted in this update.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 13.10

• libnss3 - 2:3.15.3.1-0ubuntu0.13.10.1

Ubuntu 13.04

• libnss3 - 2:3.15.3.1-0ubuntu0.13.04.1

Ubuntu 12.10

• libnss3 - 3.15.3.1-0ubuntu0.12.10.1

Ubuntu 12.04

• libnss3 - 3.15.3.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Ubuntu 10.04

• libnss3-1d - 3.15.3.1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

After a standard system update you need to restart any applications that
use NSS, such as Evolution and Chromium, to make all the necessary changes.

References

• https://launchpad.net/bugs/1263135