Users of NSS please be advised of a Certificate Authority vulnerabilities that has been identified.
To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)
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USN-1007-1: [USN-1007-1] NSS Certificate Authority vulnerabilities
Details follow:
Richard Moore discovered that NSS would sometimes incorrectly match an SSL
certificate which had a Common Name that used a wildcard followed by a partial
IP address. While it is very unlikely that a Certificate Authority would issue
such a certificate, if an attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle
attack, this flaw could be exploited to view sensitive information.
(CVE-2010-3170)
Nelson Bolyard discovered a weakness in the Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral mode
(DHE) key exchange implementation which allowed servers to use a too small
key length. (CVE-2010-3173)Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
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