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openSUSE Security Update : nss-201112 (openSUSE-SU-2012:0030-1) (BEAST)

high Nessus Plugin ID 75685

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The Mozilla NSS libraries were updated to version 3.13.1 to fix various bugs and security problems.

Following security issues were fixed :

 - 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.
 bnc#

 - SHA-224 is supported

 - NSS_NoDB_Init does not try to open /pkcs11.txt and /secmod.db anymore (bmo#641052, bnc#726096) (CVE-2011-3640)

Also following bugs were fixed :

 - fix spec file syntax for qemu-workaround

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

 - better SHA-224 support (bmo#647706)

 - SHA-224 is supported

 - 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

Solution

Update the affected nss-201112 packages.

See Also

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

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-01/msg00009.html

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-01/msg00021.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 75685

File Name: suse_11_3_nss-201112-111220.nasl

Version: 1.7

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: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-certs, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-certs-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libfreebl3-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-sysinit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libfreebl3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoftokn3-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsoftokn3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-sysinit-32bit

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/20/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3389, CVE-2011-3640