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Debian DLA-946-1 : nss security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 100302

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

The NSS library is vulnerable to two security issues :

CVE-2017-5461

Out-of-bounds write in Base64 encoding. This can trigger a crash (denial of service) and might be exploitable for code execution.

CVE-2017-5462

A flaw in DRBG number generation where the internal state V does not correctly carry bits over.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 2:3.26-1+debu7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your nss packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/05/msg00017.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/nss

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 100302

File Name: debian_DLA-946.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/22/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss3-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss3-dbg, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss3-1d, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss3-tools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/19/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5461, CVE-2017-5462