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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : NSS vulnerabilities (USN-5892-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 171951

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5892-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that NSS incorrectly handled client authentication without a user certificate in the database. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a NSS client to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-3479)

 Christian Holler discovered that NSS incorrectly handled certain PKCS 12 certificated bundles. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause NSS to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-0767)

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 libnss3, libnss3-dev and / or libnss3-tools packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5892-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 171951

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5892-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/28/2023

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: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-0767

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, 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: 2/27/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/14/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-3479, CVE-2023-0767

USN: 5892-1