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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201705-04">
+ <title>Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS): Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
+ <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in NSS, the worst of which
+ may allow execution of arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">nss</product>
+ <announced>2017-05-07</announced>
+ <revised>2017-05-07: 1</revised>
+ <bug>616032</bug>
+ <bug>616036</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="dev-libs/nss" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">3.29.5</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">3.29.5</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>The Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS) is a library implementing
+ security features like SSL v.2/v.3, TLS, PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS
+ #12, S/MIME and X.509 certificates.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in NSS. Please review the
+ CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the
+ privileges of the process, cause a Denial of Service condition, or view
+ sensitive information.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All NSS users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-libs/nss-3.29.5"
+ </code>
+
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-5461">CVE-2017-5461</uri>
+ <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-5462">CVE-2017-5462</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-04-30T13:52:41Z">BlueKnight</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-05-07T20:17:08Z">whissi</metadata>
+</glsa>