Fedora 10 : nss-3.12.2.0-4.fc10 (2009-1291)

high Nessus Plugin ID 37960

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This updates adds protection against rogue CA that was generated as a proof-of- concept of the MD5 collision attacks against X509 signatures: http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/rogue-ca/ , related to CVE-2004-2761.

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

Solution

Update the affected nss package.

See Also

https://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/rogue-ca/

http://www.nessus.org/u?256a8dfc

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 37960

File Name: fedora_2009-1291.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nss, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 2/5/2009

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2009-1291