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Alpine: nss: security update to 3.23-r1

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 405874

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

 - Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.21.4, 3.22.x through 3.28.x before 3.28.4, 3.29.x before
 3.29.5, and 3.30.x before 3.30.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds
 write) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging incorrect base64 operations.
 (CVE-2017-5461)

 - A flaw in DRBG number generation within the Network Security Services (NSS) library where the internal
 state V does not correctly carry bits over. The NSS library has been updated to fix this issue to address
 this issue and Firefox ESR 52.1 has been updated with NSS version 3.28.4. This vulnerability affects
 Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53. (CVE-2017-5462)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-5461

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-5462

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 405874

Version: Revision 1.25

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

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 Score Source: CVE-2017-5461

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/5/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5461, CVE-2017-5462

BID: 97940, 98050

IAVA: 2017-A-0126-S