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Fedora 9 : nss-3.12.2.0-2.fc9 (2009-1276)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35595

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This updates adds protection against rogue CA that was generated as a proof-of- concept of the MD5 collision attacks against X509 signatures: http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/rogue-ca/ , related to CVE-2004-2761.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected nss package.

See Also

https://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/rogue-ca/

http://www.nessus.org/u?8ba588ba

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35595

File Name: fedora_2009-1276.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/5/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nss, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/5/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-2761

BID: 33065

CWE: 310

FEDORA: 2009-1276