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openSUSE Security Update : mozilla-nss (openSUSE-2020-955)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 138736

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for mozilla-nss fixes the following issues :

mozilla-nss was updated to version 3.53.1

 - CVE-2020-12402: Fixed a potential side channel attack during RSA key generation (bsc#1173032)

 - Fixed various FIPS issues in libfreebl3 which were causing segfaults in the test suite of chrony (bsc#1168669).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected mozilla-nss packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1168669

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1173032

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 138736

File Name: openSUSE-2020-955.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/20/2020

Updated: 9/24/2020

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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:novell:opensuse:libfreebl3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libfreebl3-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-certs-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libfreebl3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-certs, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoftokn3-hmac, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoftokn3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-sysinit-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libfreebl3-hmac-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoftokn3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-certs-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-sysinit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoftokn3-hmac-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoftokn3-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-sysinit-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoftokn3-32bit-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libfreebl3-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libfreebl3-hmac, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-32bit

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/13/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/9/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12402