An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the way NSS performed certain Base64-decoding operations. 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.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | nss | 2017-04-27 00:04 | ALAS-2017-825 |
Amazon Linux 1 | nss-util | 2017-04-27 00:04 | ALAS-2017-825 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |