The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:4190 advisory.

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

    The nss-softokn package provides the Network Security Services Softoken Cryptographic Module.

    The nss-util packages provide utilities for use with the Network Security Services (NSS) libraries.

    Security Fix(es):

    * nss: Out-of-bounds write when passing an output buffer smaller than the block size to NSC_EncryptUpdate     (CVE-2019-11745)

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

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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

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RHEL 7 : nss, nss-softokn, nss-util (RHSA-2019:4190)

high Nessus Plugin ID 131984

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