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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.
CVE-2016-1979 medium priority: Ubuntu including 3 source packages (firefox, nss, thunderbird), 21 status rows across 7 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 12, not-affected 9.
Use-after-free vulnerability in the PK11_ImportDERPrivateKeyInfoAndReturnKey function in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.21.1, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted key data with DER encoding.