Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 / 13.10 : nss vulnerability (USN-2063-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 71615

Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that an intermediate certificate was incorrectly issued by a subordinate certificate authority of a trusted CA included in NSS. This intermediate certificate could be used in a man-in-the-middle attack, and has such been marked as untrusted in this update.

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 and / or libnss3-1d packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2063-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 71615

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2063-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/23/2013

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, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss3-1d, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/20/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/20/2013

Reference Information

USN: 2063-1