Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2016-667
Advisory Release Date: 2016-03-10 16:30 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2016-03-10 16:30 Pacific
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way NSS parsed certain ASN.1 structures. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted certificate which, when parsed by NSS, could cause it to crash, or execute arbitrary code, using the permissions of the user running an application compiled against the NSS library.
Affected Packages:
nss-util
Issue Correction:
Run yum update nss-util to update your system.
i686:
nss-util-3.19.1-9.49.amzn1.i686
nss-util-devel-3.19.1-9.49.amzn1.i686
nss-util-debuginfo-3.19.1-9.49.amzn1.i686
src:
nss-util-3.19.1-9.49.amzn1.src
x86_64:
nss-util-3.19.1-9.49.amzn1.x86_64
nss-util-devel-3.19.1-9.49.amzn1.x86_64
nss-util-debuginfo-3.19.1-9.49.amzn1.x86_64