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

high Nessus Plugin ID 75980

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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: dbg114-nss-201112-5564 new_updateinfo nss-201112-5564 SSL 2.0 is disabled by default dbg114-nss-201112-5564 new_updateinfo nss-201112-5564 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# dbg114-nss-201112-5564 new_updateinfo nss-201112-5564 SHA-224 is supported dbg114-nss-201112-5564 new_updateinfo nss-201112-5564 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: dbg114-nss-201112-5564 new_updateinfo nss-201112-5564 fix spec file syntax for qemu-workaround dbg114-nss-201112-5564 new_updateinfo nss-201112-5564 Added a patch to fix errors in the pkcs11n.h header file. (bmo#702090) dbg114-nss-201112-5564 new_updateinfo nss-201112-5564 better SHA-224 support (bmo#647706) dbg114-nss-201112-5564 new_updateinfo nss-201112-5564 SHA-224 is supported dbg114-nss-201112-5564 new_updateinfo nss-201112-5564 Added PORT_ErrorToString and PORT_ErrorToName to return the error message and symbolic name of an NSS error code dbg114-nss-201112-5564 new_updateinfo nss-201112-5564 Added NSS_GetVersion to return the NSS version string dbg114-nss-201112-5564 new_updateinfo nss-201112-5564 Added experimental support of RSA-PSS to the softoken only

Solution

Update the affected nss-201112 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 75980

File Name: suse_11_4_nss-201112-111220.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

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: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.4, 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, 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: 12/20/2011

Reference Information

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

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