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openSUSE Security Update : mozilla-nss (openSUSE-2011-100) (BEAST)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 74514

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

- Added a patch to fix errors in the pkcs11n.h header file. (bmo#702090)

 - update to 3.13.1 RTM

 - better SHA-224 support (bmo#647706)

 - fixed a regression (causing hangs in some situations) introduced in 3.13 (bmo#693228)

 - update to 3.13.0 RTM

 - SSL 2.0 is disabled by default

 - A defense against the SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 CBC chosen plaintext attack demonstrated by Rizzo and Duong (CVE-2011-3389) is enabled by default. Set the SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV SSL option to PR_FALSE to disable it.

 - SHA-224 is supported

 - Ported to iOS. (Requires NSPR 4.9.)

 - Added PORT_ErrorToString and PORT_ErrorToName to return the error message and symbolic name of an NSS error code

 - Added NSS_GetVersion to return the NSS version string

 - Added experimental support of RSA-PSS to the softoken only

 - NSS_NoDB_Init does not try to open /pkcs11.txt and /secmod.db anymore (bmo#641052, bnc#726096)

Solution

Update the affected mozilla-nss packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726096

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 74514

File Name: openSUSE-2011-100.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 12/5/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libfreebl3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-certs-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libfreebl3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-certs, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoftokn3, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-sysinit-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoftokn3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoftokn3-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libfreebl3-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-sysinit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoftokn3-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libfreebl3-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-32bit

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/22/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3389