The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2017:1364 advisory.

    Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support the cross-platform development     of security-enabled client and server applications.

    Security Fix(es):

    * A null pointer dereference flaw was found in the way NSS handled empty SSLv2 messages. An attacker could     use this flaw to crash a server application compiled against the NSS library. (CVE-2017-7502)

    Bug Fix(es):

    * The Network Security Services (NSS) code and Certificate Authority (CA) list have been updated to meet     the recommendations as published with the latest Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR). The     updated CA list improves compatibility with the certificates that are used in the Internet Public Key     Infrastructure (PKI). To avoid certificate validation refusals, Red Hat recommends installing the updated     CA list on June 12, 2017. (BZ#1448488)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 6 : nss (RHSA-2017:1364)

high Nessus Plugin ID 100531

Version 3.13