Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2009-197-2 - Security issues in nss prior to 3.12.3 could lead to a man-in-the-middle attack via a spoofed X.509 certificate and md2 algorithm flaws, and also cause a denial-of-service and possible code execution via a long domain name in X.509 certificate. This update provides the latest versions of NSS and NSPR libraries which are not vulnerable to those attacks. This update also provides fixed packages for Mandriva Linux 2008.1 and fixes mozilla-thunderbird error messages.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:197-2
http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : nss
Date : September 11, 2009
Affected: 2008.1
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Problem Description:
Security issues in nss prior to 3.12.3 could lead to a
man-in-the-middle attack via a spoofed X.509 certificate
(CVE-2009-2408) and md2 algorithm flaws (CVE-2009-2409), and also
cause a denial-of-service and possible code execution via a long
domain name in X.509 certificate (CVE-2009-2404).
This update provides the latest versions of NSS and NSPR libraries
which are not vulnerable to those attacks.
Update:
This update also provides fixed packages for Mandriva Linux 2008.1
and fixes mozilla-thunderbird error messages.
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2408
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2409
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2404
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Linux 2008.1:
a4551a03a7c40cce16b0636c62e70c04 2008.1/i586/libnss3-3.12.3.1-0.2mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
6debdb70bfced1ce40ddc59f78bf6151 2008.1/i586/libnss-devel-3.12.3.1-0.2mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
60074051e11f1d454b9573564242eccf 2008.1/i586/libnss-static-devel-3.12.3.1-0.2mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
2986b2dfbd706c6ae33f69652c0b084e 2008.1/i586/nss-3.12.3.1-0.2mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
9eb569a34f2328ae0646a7134d4f1248 2008.1/SRPMS/nss-3.12.3.1-0.2mdv2008.1.src.rpm
Mandriva Linux 2008.1/X86_64:
f5e47750b4783d42d1290114b9c3d8d8 2008.1/x86_64/lib64nss3-3.12.3.1-0.2mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
72ed9a236283f342b97f5c49df19c404 2008.1/x86_64/lib64nss-devel-3.12.3.1-0.2mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
4ae51a359c93f2ff40a0c5c40049e36d 2008.1/x86_64/lib64nss-static-devel-3.12.3.1-0.2mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
0b2b4d83d403e333202631390b4b0c58 2008.1/x86_64/nss-3.12.3.1-0.2mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
9eb569a34f2328ae0646a7134d4f1248 2008.1/SRPMS/nss-3.12.3.1-0.2mdv2008.1.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.
All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:
gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98
You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories
If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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