USN-5872-1: NSS vulnerabilities

Severity

Medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

Canonical Ubuntu 16.04

Description

Tavis Ormandy discovered that NSS incorrectly handled an empty pkcs7 sequence. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NSS to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2022-22747) Ronald Crane discovered that NSS incorrectly handled certain memory operations. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause NSS to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-34480) Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-5872-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: libnss3-nssdb - 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm3 libnss3-dev - 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm3 libnss3 - 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm3 libnss3-1d - 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm3 libnss3-tools - 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm3 Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2022-22747, CVE-2022-34480

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

Operations Manager
- 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.54

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigation below. On the Tanzu Network product page for each release, check the Depends On section and/or Release Notes for this information. Releases that have fixed this issue include:

Operations Manager
- 2.10.54

References

History

2023-05-22: Initial vulnerability report published.