CVE-2015-2721

NameCVE-2015-2721
DescriptionMozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.19, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.8 and 38.x before 38.1, Thunderbird before 38.1, and other products, does not properly determine state transitions for the TLS state machine, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by blocking messages, as demonstrated by removing a forward-secrecy property by blocking a ServerKeyExchange message, aka a "SMACK SKIP-TLS" issue.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-315-1, DSA-3300-1, DSA-3324-1, DSA-3336-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
nss (PTS)bullseye2:3.61-1+deb11u3fixed
bullseye (security)2:3.61-1+deb11u4fixed
bookworm2:3.87.1-1fixed
bookworm (security)2:3.87.1-1+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie2:3.106-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
icedovesourcesqueeze(unfixed)end-of-life
icedovesourcewheezy31.8.0-1~deb7u1DSA-3324-1
icedovesourcejessie31.8.0-1~deb8u1DSA-3324-1
icedovesource(unstable)38.1.0-1
iceweaselsourcesqueeze(unfixed)end-of-life
iceweaselsourcewheezy31.8.0esr-1~deb7u1DSA-3300-1
iceweaselsourcejessie31.8.0esr-1~deb8u1DSA-3300-1
iceweaselsource(unstable)38.1.0esr-1
nsssourcesqueeze3.12.8-1+squeeze12DLA-315-1
nsssourcewheezy2:3.14.5-1+deb7u5DSA-3336-1
nsssourcejessie2:3.17.2-1.1+deb8u1DSA-3336-1
nsssource(unstable)2:3.19.1-1

Notes

NSS patch: https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/6b4770c76bc8
NSS testcase: https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/1865635f5df5
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-71/

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