Cryptographic Issues The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nss  (opens in a new tab)


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Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
4.35% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1210-NSS-642262
  • published15 Sept 2012
  • disclosed15 Sept 2012

Introduced: 15 Sep 2012

CVE-2012-4929  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-310  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nss package and not the nss package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The TLS protocol 1.2 and earlier, as used in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Qt, and other products, can encrypt compressed data without properly obfuscating the length of the unencrypted data, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain plaintext HTTP headers by observing length differences during a series of guesses in which a string in an HTTP request potentially matches an unknown string in an HTTP header, aka a "CRIME" attack.

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