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Ubuntu: USN-3163-1 (CVE-2016-9074): NSS vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3163-1 (CVE-2016-9074): NSS vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
11/15/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/05/2017
Modified
08/17/2018

Description

An existing mitigation of timing side-channel attacks is insufficient in some circumstances. This issue is addressed in Network Security Services (NSS) 3.26.1. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 45.5, Firefox ESR < 45.5, and Firefox < 50.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libnss3

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