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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : nss regression (USN-2903-2)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 88928
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Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.Description
USN-2903-1 fixed a vulnerability in NSS. An incorrect package versioning change in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS caused a regression when building software against NSS. This update fixes the problem.We apologize for the inconvenience.
Hanno Bock discovered that NSS incorrectly handled certain division functions, possibly leading to cryptographic weaknesses.
(CVE-2016-1938)
This update also refreshes the NSS package to version 3.21 which includes the latest CA certificate bundle, and removes the SPI CA.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected libnss3-dev package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 88928
File Name: ubuntu_USN-2903-2.nasl
Version: 2.15
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 2/24/2016
Updated: 1/17/2023
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 2.5
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.4
Temporal Score: 4.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.5
Temporal Score: 5.7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss3-dev
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 2/23/2016
Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2016
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2016-1938
USN: 2903-2