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USN-1763-2: NSPR update

14 March 2013

NSPR update to work with the new NSS.

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Releases

Packages

  • nspr - NetScape Portable Runtime Library

Details

USN-1763-1 fixed a vulnerability in NSS. This update provides the NSPR
needed to use the new NSS.

Original advisory details:

Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson discovered that the TLS protocol as used
in NSS was vulnerable to a timing side-channel attack known as the
"Lucky Thirteen" issue. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform
plaintext-recovery attacks via analysis of timing data.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 10.04

After a standard system update you need to restart any applications that
use NSPR, such as Evolution and Chromium, to make all the necessary changes.