Debian DLA-1857-1 : nss security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 126834

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Vulnerabilities have been discovered in nss, the Mozilla Network Security Service library.

CVE-2019-11719: Out-of-bounds read when importing curve25519 private key

When importing a curve25519 private key in PKCS#8format with leading 0x00 bytes, it is possible to trigger an out-of-bounds read in the Network Security Services (NSS) library. This could lead to information disclosure.

CVE-2019-11729: Empty or malformed p256-ECDH public keys may trigger a segmentation fault

Empty or malformed p256-ECDH public keys may trigger a segmentation fault due values being improperly sanitized before being copied into memory and used.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 2:3.26-1+debu8u5.

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/2019/07/msg00017.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 126834

File Name: debian_DLA-1857.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/22/2019

Updated: 5/9/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11719

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss3-1d, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, 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: 7/20/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/23/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11719, CVE-2019-11729