Untrusted Search Path Affecting nss package, versions <3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-NSS-421478
- published 28 Oct 2011
- disclosed 28 Oct 2011
Introduced: 28 Oct 2011
CVE-2011-3640 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:8 nss to version 3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nss package and not the nss package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS), as used in Google Chrome before 17 on Windows and Mac OS X, might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse pkcs11.txt file in a top-level directory. NOTE: the vendor's response was "Strange behavior, but we're not treating this as a security bug."
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3640
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=97426
- http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2011/10/google-chrome-pkcs11txt-file-planting.html
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8483
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13154861
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13155432
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13414
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641052