Detections
Analytics
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
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 35595
File Name: fedora_2009-1276.nasl
Version: 1.18
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 2/5/2009
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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