Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libapache2-mod-nss  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-LIBAPACHE2MODNSS-666572
  • published8 Jun 2017
  • disclosed8 Jun 2017

Introduced: 8 Jun 2017

CVE-2016-3099  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-327  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libapache2-mod-nss package and not the libapache2-mod-nss package as distributed by Ubuntu.

mod_ns in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 allows remote attackers to force the use of ciphers that were not intended to be enabled.