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Oracle Linux 5 : nss / and / nspr (ELSA-2012-1090)

high Nessus Plugin ID 68580

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2012-1090 advisory.

 nspr [4.9.1-4]
 - Resolves: rhbz#834219 - Fix postinstall scriptlet failures
 - Fix %post and %postun lines per packaging guidelines
 - Updated License: to MPLv2.0 per upstream

 [4.9.1-3]
 - Resolves: rhbz#834219 - Ensure nspr-config.in changes get applied

 [4.9.1-2]
 - Resolves: rhbz#834219 - restore top section of nspr-config-pc.patch
 - Needed to prevent multilib regressions

 nss [3.13.5-4.0.1.el5_8 ]
 - Update clean.gif in the tarball

 [3.13.5-4]
 - Related: rhbz#834219 - Fix ia64 / i386 multilib nss install failure
 - Remove no longer needed %pre and %preun scriplets meant for nss updates from RHEL-5.0

 [3.13.5-3]
 - Resolves: rhbz#834219 - Fix the changes to the %post line
 - Having multiple commands requires that /sbin/lconfig be the beginning of the scriptlet

 [3.13.5-2]
 - Resolves: rhbz#834219 - Fix multilib and scriptlet problems
 - Fix %post and %postun lines per packaging guildelines
 - Add %{?_isa} to tools Requires: per packaging guidelines
 - Fix explicit-lib-dependency zlib error reported by rpmlint

 [3.13.5-1]
 - Resolves: rhbz#834219 - Update RHEL 5.x to NSS 3.13.5 and NSPR 4.9.1 for Mozilla 10.0.6

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2012-1090.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 68580

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-1090.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 10/23/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-0441

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nss-pkcs11-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nspr, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nspr-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nss-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nss-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nss

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/18/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/5/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0441

BID: 53798

RHSA: 2012:1090