Debian DSA-2994-1 : nss - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 76950

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in nss, the Mozilla Network Security Service library :

- CVE-2013-1741 Runaway memset in certificate parsing on 64-bit computers leading to a crash by attempting to write 4Gb of nulls.

- CVE-2013-5606 Certificate validation with the verifylog mode did not return validation errors, but instead expected applications to determine the status by looking at the log.

- CVE-2014-1491 Ticket handling protection mechanisms bypass due to the lack of restriction of public values in Diffie-Hellman key exchanges.

- CVE-2014-1492 Incorrect IDNA domain name matching for wildcard certificates could allow specially crafted invalid certificates to be considered as valid.

Solution

Upgrade the nss packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 76950

File Name: debian_DSA-2994.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 8/1/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nss, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/31/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1741, CVE-2013-5606, CVE-2014-1491, CVE-2014-1492

BID: 63736, 63737, 65332, 66356

DSA: 2994

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