Out-of-Bounds Affecting nspr-devel package, versions <0:4.25.0-2.amzn2


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-NSPRDEVEL-1688976
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed22 Oct 2020

Introduced: 22 Oct 2020

CVE-2019-17006  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 nspr-devel to version 0:4.25.0-2.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2020-1559.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nspr-devel package and not the nspr-devel package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.46, several cryptographic primitives had missing length checks. In cases where the application calling the library did not perform a sanity check on the inputs it could result in a crash due to a buffer overflow.

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