USN-5892-1

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    USN-5892-1

    Published: 27 Feb 2023Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026

    Summary: nss vulnerabilities

    Details: It was discovered that NSS incorrectly handled client authentication without a user certificate in the database. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a NSS client to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-3479) Christian Holler discovered that NSS incorrectly handled certain PKCS 12 certificated bundles. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause NSS to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-0767)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5892-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-3479, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-0767

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: nss

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/nss@2:3.35-2ubuntu2.16?arch=source&distro=bionic

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2:3.35-2ubuntu2.16

    Affected versions

    2:3.32-1ubuntu3

    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
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