USN-2343-1

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    USN-2343-1

    Published: 9 Sept 2014Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026

    Summary: nss vulnerability

    Details: Tyson Smith and Jesse Schwartzentruber discovered that NSS contained a race condition when performing certificate validation. An attacker could use this issue to cause NSS to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2343-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1544

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: nss

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/nss@2:3.15.4-1ubuntu7.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2:3.15.4-1ubuntu7.1

    Affected versions

    2:3.15.1-1ubuntu1
    2:3.15.2-1
    2:3.15.3-1
    2:3.15.3.1-1
    2:3.15.3.1-1.1
    2:3.15.3.1-1.1ubuntu1
    2:3.15.4-1ubuntu3
    2:3.15.4-1ubuntu4
    2:3.15.4-1ubuntu5
    2:3.15.4-1ubuntu6
    2:3.15.4-1ubuntu7

    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