Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : nss vulnerabilities (USN-1106-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 53320

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

It was discovered that several invalid HTTPS certificates were issued and revoked. An attacker could exploit these to perform a man in the middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications. These certificates were marked as explicitly not trusted to prevent their misuse.

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 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1106-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 53320

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1106-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/7/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss3-0d, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss3-1d, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss3-1d-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss3-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss3-tools, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/6/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/6/2011

Reference Information

USN: 1106-1