CVE-2017-5461

Publication date 20 April 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.21.4, 3.22.x through 3.28.x before 3.28.4, 3.29.x before 3.29.5, and 3.30.x before 3.30.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging incorrect base64 operations.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
firefox	17.04 zesty	Fixed 53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.17.04.1
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored
nss	17.04 zesty	Fixed 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.17.04.1
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life
thunderbird	17.04 zesty	Fixed 1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.17.04.1
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
nss	Upstream: https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/77a5bb81dbaa

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3372-1
NSS vulnerability
31 July 2017

USN-3278-1
Thunderbird vulnerabilities
16 May 2017

USN-3270-1
NSS vulnerabilities
27 April 2017

USN-3260-1
Firefox vulnerabilities
21 April 2017