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Amazon Linux AMI : nspr / nss-util,nss,jss (ALAS-2015-608)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 86770
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Synopsis
The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.Description
Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system facilities.A use-after-poison flaw and a heap-based buffer overflow flaw were found in the way NSS parsed certain ASN.1 structures. An attacker could use these flaws to cause NSS to crash or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running an application compiled against the NSS library. (CVE-2015-7181 , CVE-2015-7182)
A heap-based buffer overflow was found in NSPR. An attacker could use this flaw to cause NSPR to crash or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running an application compiled against the NSPR library. (CVE-2015-7183)
Note: Applications using NSPR's PL_ARENA_ALLOCATE, PR_ARENA_ALLOCATE, PL_ARENA_GROW, or PR_ARENA_GROW macros need to be rebuild against the fixed nspr packages to completely resolve the CVE-2015-7183 issue.
This erratum includes nss and nss-utils packages rebuilt against the fixed nspr version.
Solution
Run 'yum update nspr' to update your system.Run 'yum update nss-util' to update your system.
Run 'yum update nss' to update your system.
Run 'yum update jss' to update your system.
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Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 86770
File Name: ala_ALAS-2015-608.nasl
Version: 2.8
Type: local
Agent: unix
Published: 11/6/2015
Updated: 4/18/2018
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 9.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nspr-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-util-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-util, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:jss-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:jss-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-sysinit, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-pkcs11-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-tools, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:jss, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-util-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nspr, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nss-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:nspr-debuginfo, cpe:/o:amazon:linux
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list
Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2015