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Oracle Linux 8 : nss / and / nspr (ELSA-2019-1951)

high Nessus Plugin ID 127609

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-1951 advisory.

 nspr [4.21.0-2]
 - Rebuild

 [4.21.0-1]
 - Update to NSPR 4.21

 nss [3.44.0-7]
 - Backport fixes from 3.44.1

 [3.44.0-6]
 - Add continuous RNG test required by FIPS
 - fipstest: use CKM_TLS12_MASTER_KEY_DERIVE instead of vendor specific mechanism

 [3.44.0-5]
 - Rebuild with the correct build target

 [3.44.0-4.1]
 - rebuild to try to retrigger CI tests

 [3.44.0-4]
 - Fix certutil man page
 - Fix extracting a public key from a private key for dh, ec, and dsa

 [3.44.0-3]
 - Disable TLS 1.3 under FIPS mode
 - Disable RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 in TLS 1.3
 - Fix post-handshake auth transcript calculation if SSL_ENABLE_SESSION_TICKETS is set
 - Revert the change to use XDG basedirs (mozilla#818686)

 [3.44.0-2]
 - Add ike mechanisms in softokn
 - Add FIPS checks in softoken

 [3.44.0-1]
 - Update to NSS 3.44
 - Define NSS_SEED_ONLY_DEV_URANDOM=1 to exclusively use getentropy
 - Use %autosetup
 - Clean up manual pages generation
 - Clean up %check
 - Remove prelink dependency, which is not available in RHEL-8
 - Remove upstreamed patches

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2019-1951.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 127609

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2019-1951.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/12/2019

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: 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:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11727

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11719

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nss-softokn-freebl-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nss-util, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nss-softokn-freebl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nss-softokn, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nspr, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nspr-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nss-softokn-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nss-sysinit, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nss-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nss-util-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nss-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nss

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/23/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-18508, CVE-2019-11719, CVE-2019-11727, CVE-2019-11729

RHSA: 2019:1951