ALAS-2013-217


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2013-217
Advisory Release Date: 2013-08-07 21:23 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-15 23:20 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

It was discovered that NSS leaked timing information when decrypting TLS/SSL and DTLS protocol encrypted records when CBC-mode cipher suites were used. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to retrieve plain text from the encrypted packets by using a TLS/SSL or DTLS server as a padding oracle. (CVE-2013-1620)

An out-of-bounds memory read flaw was found in the way NSS decoded certain certificates. If an application using NSS decoded a malformed certificate, it could cause the application to crash. (CVE-2013-0791)


Affected Packages:

nss


Issue Correction:
Run yum update nss to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    nss-3.14.3-4.29.amzn1.i686
    nss-tools-3.14.3-4.29.amzn1.i686
    nss-devel-3.14.3-4.29.amzn1.i686
    nss-debuginfo-3.14.3-4.29.amzn1.i686
    nss-sysinit-3.14.3-4.29.amzn1.i686
    nss-pkcs11-devel-3.14.3-4.29.amzn1.i686

src:
    nss-3.14.3-4.29.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    nss-debuginfo-3.14.3-4.29.amzn1.x86_64
    nss-sysinit-3.14.3-4.29.amzn1.x86_64
    nss-3.14.3-4.29.amzn1.x86_64
    nss-devel-3.14.3-4.29.amzn1.x86_64
    nss-pkcs11-devel-3.14.3-4.29.amzn1.x86_64
    nss-tools-3.14.3-4.29.amzn1.x86_64