Debian DLA-2266-1 : nss security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 137909

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities were fixed in nss, the Network Security Service libraries.

CVE-2020-12399

Force a fixed length for DSA exponentiation.

CVE-2020-12402

Side channel vulnerabilities during RSA key generation.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 2:3.26-1+debu8u11.

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 137909

File Name: debian_DLA-2266.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 7/1/2020

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.2

Temporal Score: 0.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-12402

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/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: 6/30/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/9/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12399, CVE-2020-12402

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