Debian DLA-971-1 : nss security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 100559

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2017-7502

A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in NSS was found when server receives empty SSLv2 messages. This issue was introduced with the recent removal of SSLv2 protocol from upstream code in 3.24.0 and introduction of dedicated parser able to handle just sslv2-style hello messages.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.26-1+debu7u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your nss packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 100559

File Name: debian_DLA-971.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 6/1/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss3-1d, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss3-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss3-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss3-tools, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/31/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7502

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