What is RHSA-2016:0685?

RHSA-2016:0685 is a security advisory published by Red Hat Product Security with Medium severity. Red Hat Security Advisory: nss, nspr, nss-softokn, and nss-util security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Which CVE IDs does RHSA-2016:0685 cover?

RHSA-2016:0685 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2016-1978, CVE-2016-1979. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

RHSA-2016:0685Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: nss, nspr, nss-softokn, and nss-util security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Vendor

Red Hat Product Security

Published

April 25, 2016

Last Modified

June 27, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2016-1978 →CVE-2016-1979 →

📋 Description

CVE-2016-1978 — nss: Use-after-free in NSS during SSL connections in low memory (MFSA 2016-15) CVE-2016-1979 — nss: Use-after-free during processing of DER encoded keys in NSS (MFSA 2016-36)

🔗 References (8)

selfhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0685
externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1299872
externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1303021
externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1310581
externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1315202
externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1315565
selfhttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2016/rhsa-2016_0685.json