Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-422
Advisory Release Date: 2014-10-01 16:32 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-10-01 18:53 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
A flaw was found in the way NSS parsed ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One) input from certain RSA signatures. A remote attacker could use this flaw to forge RSA certificates by providing a specially crafted signature to an application using NSS.
Affected Packages:
nss-util
Issue Correction:
Run yum update nss-util to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
nss-util-devel-3.16.2-2.4.amzn1.i686
nss-util-3.16.2-2.4.amzn1.i686
nss-util-debuginfo-3.16.2-2.4.amzn1.i686
src:
nss-util-3.16.2-2.4.amzn1.src
x86_64:
nss-util-debuginfo-3.16.2-2.4.amzn1.x86_64
nss-util-devel-3.16.2-2.4.amzn1.x86_64
nss-util-3.16.2-2.4.amzn1.x86_64