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Debian DSA-2490-1 : nss - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 59768

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Kaspar Brand discovered that Mozilla's Network Security Services (NSS) libraries did insufficient length checking in the QuickDER decoder, allowing to crash a program using the libraries.

Solution

Upgrade the nss packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.12.8-1+squeeze5.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/nss

https://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2490

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 59768

File Name: debian_DSA-2490.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/29/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nss, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/7/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0441

DSA: 2490