MGASA-2016-0114

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    MGASA-2016-0114

    Published: 16 Mar 2016Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-1950

    Summary: Updated nss packages fix CVE-2016-1950

    Details: Updated rootcerts and nss packages fix security vulnerability: 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 (CVE-2016-1950). This issue was supposed to have been fixed in MGASA-2016-0105, but Mozilla did not include the fix until the following nss releases.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0114.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17974, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-35/, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.23_release_notes, http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0105.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: rootcerts

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/rootcerts?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -20160225.00-1.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High