Out-of-bounds Write Affecting nss-sysinit package, versions <0:3.44.0-7.amzn2
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- published 27 Sep 2021
- disclosed 8 Jan 2020
Introduced: 8 Jan 2020
CVE-2019-11745 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2
nss-sysinit
to version 0:3.44.0-7.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2020-1384
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nss-sysinit
package and not the nss-sysinit
package as distributed by Amazon-Linux
.
See How to fix?
for Amazon-Linux:2
relevant fixed versions and status.
When encrypting with a block cipher, if a call to NSC_EncryptUpdate was made with data smaller than the block size, a small out of bounds write could occur. This could have caused heap corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71.
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1586176
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-379803.pdf
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-36/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-37/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-38/
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-11745
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-02
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-10
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-37
- https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-21-040-04
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00029.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0243
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0466
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00006.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4241-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4335-1/