vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3163-1 (CVE-2016-8635): NSS vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Nov 16, 2016
Added
Jan 5, 2017
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

It was found that Diffie Hellman Client key exchange handling in NSS 3.21.x was vulnerable to small subgroup confinement attack. An attacker could use this flaw to recover private keys by confining the client DH key to small subgroup of the desired group.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-libnss3
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