CentOS 4 / 5 : nss (CESA-2010:0165)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 45364

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Synopsis

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

Description

Updated nss packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support the cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSLv2, SSLv3, TLS, and other security standards.

Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system facilities. These facilities include threads, thread synchronization, normal file and network I/O, interval timing, calendar time, basic memory management (malloc and free), and shared library linking.

A flaw was found in the way the TLS/SSL (Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer) protocols handled session renegotiation. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to prefix arbitrary plain text to a client's session (for example, an HTTPS connection to a website). This could force the server to process an attacker's request as if authenticated using the victim's credentials. This update addresses this flaw by implementing the TLS Renegotiation Indication Extension, as defined in RFC 5746.
(CVE-2009-3555)

Refer to the following Knowledgebase article for additional details about this flaw: http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-20491

Users of Red Hat Certificate System 7.3 and 8.0 should review the following Knowledgebase article before installing this update:
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-28439

All users of NSS are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which update NSS to version 3.12.6. This erratum also updates the NSPR packages to the version required by NSS 3.12.6. All running applications using the NSS library must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected nss packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 45364

File Name: centos_RHSA-2010-0165.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 3/29/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss-tools, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nspr, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss-devel, cpe:/o:centos:centos:4, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss-pkcs11-devel, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nspr-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/28/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/9/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3555

CWE: 310

RHSA: 2010:0165

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