Critical Netscape Flaw Found
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PCWorld reports that a critical hole in the Netscape Network Security Services (NSS) library could in fact leave Web servers open to attack. The virtual alarm was rang by security company, Internet Security Systems. There is a patch available for the the NSS library being issued by the Mozilla Foundation. It is recommended that it be applied immediately.
“ISS issued a security bulletin this week about a flaw in the NSS library’s implementation of the Secure Sockets Layer Version 2 (SSLv2) protocol that could allow remote attackers to use an SSLv2 connection to take control of Web servers using the NSS library. The flaw in the NSS library affects the Netscape Enterprise Server and Sun Microsystems’ Sun Java System Web Server, but may also affect countless other products that use the open source NSS library, ISS says.”