Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libapache2-mod-nss (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
The probability is the direct output of the EPSS model, and conveys an overall sense of the threat of exploitation in the wild. The percentile measures the EPSS probability relative to all known EPSS scores. Note: This data is updated daily, relying on the latest available EPSS model version. Check out the EPSS documentation for more details.
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- published8 Jun 2017
- disclosed8 Jun 2017
Introduced: 8 Jun 2017
CVE-2016-3099 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-3099
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3099
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183102.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183129.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184345.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1319052
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2602.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2602
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3099