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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.04 / 11.10 : nss vulnerability (USN-1540-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 61569

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Kaspar Brand discovered a vulnerability in how the Network Security Services (NSS) ASN.1 decoder handles zero length items. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted certificate, an attacker could possibly exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash.

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

Solution

Update the affected libnss3-1d package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1540-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 61569

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1540-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/17/2012

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous 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: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss3-1d, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/16/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/5/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0441

BID: 53798

USN: 1540-1