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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : NSS vulnerabilities (USN-4397-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 137555

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4397-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that NSS incorrectly handled the TLS State Machine. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NSS to hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 19.10. (CVE-2019-17023)

 Cesar Pereida Garcia discovered that NSS incorrectly handled DSA key generation. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a timing attack and recover DSA keys. (CVE-2020-12399)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4397-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 137555

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4397-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/17/2020

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-17023

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss3, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss3-1d, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss3-nssdb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss3-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss3-tools

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/16/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/8/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-17023, CVE-2020-12399

USN: 4397-1