Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nss (opens in a new tab)

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Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2104-NSS-1259639
published21 Oct 2020
disclosed20 Oct 2020

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Introduced: 20 Oct 2020

CVE-2020-25648 (opens in a new tab) CWE-770 (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:21.04.

NVD Description

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

A flaw was found in the way NSS handled CCS (ChangeCipherSpec) messages in TLS 1.3. This flaw allows a remote attacker to send multiple CCS messages, causing a denial of service for servers compiled with the NSS library. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This flaw affects NSS versions before 3.58.