RHEL 7 : nss, nss-softokn, nss-util, and nspr (RHSA-2019:2237)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 127699

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2237 advisory.

- ROHNP: Key Extraction Side Channel in Multiple Crypto Libraries (CVE-2018-0495)

- nss: Cache side-channel variant of the Bleichenbacher attack (CVE-2018-12404)

- nss: Handling of Netscape Certificate Sequences in CERT_DecodeCertPackage() may crash with a NULL deref leading to DoS (CVE-2019-17007)

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?c1612956

http://www.nessus.org/u?cc7115e8

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2237

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144186

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212132

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1431241

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444136

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1455288

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1508571

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1508595

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1509045

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1509396

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1510156

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1514041

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1533729

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1538081

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1591163

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1639873

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1657164

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1657913

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1670239

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1712876

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 127699

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2237.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/12/2019

Updated: 4/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12404

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nspr, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nspr-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nss, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nss-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nss-pkcs11-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nss-softokn, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nss-softokn-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nss-softokn-freebl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nss-softokn-freebl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nss-sysinit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nss-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nss-util, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nss-util-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/13/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-0495, CVE-2018-12404, CVE-2019-17007

CWE: 200, 476

RHSA: 2019:2237