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usn-2672-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2015-07-09 17:32
Modified
2026-04-22 07:36
Summary
nss vulnerabilities
Details

Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that NSS incorrectly handled state transitions for the TLS state machine. If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to skip the ServerKeyExchange message and remove the forward-secrecy property. (CVE-2015-2721)

Watson Ladd discovered that NSS incorrectly handled Elliptical Curve Cryptography (ECC) multiplication. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to spoof ECDSA signatures. (CVE-2015-2730)

As a security improvement, this update modifies NSS behaviour to reject DH key sizes below 768 bits, preventing a possible downgrade attack.

This update also refreshes the NSS package to version 3.19.2 which includes the latest CA certificate bundle.

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                }
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      },
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        "availability": "No subscription required",
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  "id": "USN-2672-1",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:36:32Z",
  "published": "2015-07-09T17:32:22Z",
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}



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