RHEL 7 : nss (RHSA-2021:1384)

high Nessus Plugin ID 149029

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for nss.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:1384 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* nss: TLS 1.3 CCS flood remote DoS Attack (CVE-2020-25648)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

* FTBFS: Paypal Cert expired (BZ#1883973)

* FTBFS: IKE CLASS_1563 fails gtest (BZ#1884793)

* Cannot compile code with nss headers and -Werror=strict-prototypes (BZ#1885321)

* CA HSM ncipher token disabled after RHEL-7.9 update (BZ#1932193)

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL nss package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:1384.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?5e33b5b3

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1384

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1883973

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1884793

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1885321

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1887319

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 149029

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-1384.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/27/2021

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-25648

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/27/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/20/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-25648

CWE: 770

RHSA: 2021:1384