{"id":"MGASA-2016-0114","summary":"Updated nss packages fix CVE-2016-1950","details":"Updated rootcerts and nss packages fix security vulnerability:\n\nA heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way NSS parsed certain\nASN.1 structures. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially\ncrafted certificate which, when parsed by NSS, could cause it to crash, or\nexecute arbitrary code, using the permissions of the user running an\napplication compiled against the NSS library (CVE-2016-1950).\n\nThis issue was supposed to have been fixed in MGASA-2016-0105, but Mozilla\ndid not include the fix until the following nss releases.\n","modified":"2026-04-16T01:47:33.073070784Z","published":"2016-03-16T18:07:23Z","upstream":["CVE-2016-1950"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0114.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17974"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-35/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.23_release_notes"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0105.html"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"rootcerts","ecosystem":"Mageia:5","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/rootcerts?arch=source&distro=mageia-5"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"20160225.00-1.mga5"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0114.json"}},{"package":{"name":"nss","ecosystem":"Mageia:5","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/nss?arch=source&distro=mageia-5"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.23.0-1.mga5"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0114.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}