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EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : nss, nss-util (EulerOS-SA-2017-1076)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 99942
Synopsis
The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.Description
According to the version of the nss, nss-util packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :- An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the way NSS performed certain Base64-decoding operations. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted certificate which, when parsed by NSS, could cause it to crash or execute arbitrary code, using the permissions of the user running an application compiled against the NSS library. (CVE-2017-5461)
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected nss, nss-util package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 99942
File Name: EulerOS_SA-2017-1076.nasl
Version: 3.16
Type: local
Family: Huawei Local Security Checks
Published: 5/3/2017
Updated: 1/6/2021
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
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
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 9.8
Temporal Score: 8.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:nss, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:nss-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:nss-sysinit, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:nss-tools, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:nss-util, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:nss-util-devel, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp
Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version
Patch Publication Date: 4/5/2017
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2017-5461