A flaw was found in the way nss read uninitialized data, when there was a decryption failure. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service for applications linked with the nss library (application crash) The vulnerable code was added in NSS 3.14.3 to fix the lucky-13 issue (CVE-2013-1620). This issue is resolved in nss-3.15.2 References: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/NSS/NSS_3.15.2_release_notes https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=894370 (currently closed) patch: https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/56436aa3463f
Statement: This issue affects the version of nss as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having moderate security impact, a future update may address this flaw.
This flaw is resolved in the following versions of nss in Fedora: Fedora-18: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/nss/3.15.2/1.fc18 Fedora-19: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/nss/3.15.2/1.fc19 Fedora-Rawhide: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/nss/3.15.2/1.fc20
(In reply to Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala from comment #0) > The vulnerable code was added in NSS 3.14.3 to fix the lucky-13 issue > (CVE-2013-1620). CVE-2013-1620 was tracked via bug 908234. Relevant errata released to address that issue in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 are: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1135.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1144.html Previous nss packages versions were not affected.
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2013:1791 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1791.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2013:1829 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1829.html