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Debian DSA-3037-1 : icedove - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 77920

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Synopsis

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

Description

Antoine Delignat-Lavaud from Inria discovered an issue in the way NSS (the Mozilla Network Security Service library, embedded in Wheezy's Icedove), was parsing ASN.1 data used in signatures, making it vulnerable to a signature forgery attack.

An attacker could craft ASN.1 data to forge RSA certificates with a valid certification chain to a trusted CA.

Solution

Upgrade the icedove packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 24.8.1-1~deb7u1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/icedove

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3037

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 77920

File Name: debian_DSA-3037.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:icedove, 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: 9/26/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1568

BID: 70116

DSA: 3037