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Debian DSA-2300-2 : nss - compromised certificate authority

high Nessus Plugin ID 56026

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several unauthorised SSL certificates have been found in the wild issued for the DigiNotar Certificate Authority, obtained through a security compromise with said company. Debian, like other software distributors, has as a precaution decided to disable the DigiNotar Root CA by default in the NSS crypto libraries.

Solution

Upgrade the nss packages.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 3.12.3.1-0lenny6.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.12.8-1+squeeze3.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/nss

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2300

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 56026

File Name: debian_DSA-2300.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/1/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nss, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/5/2011

Reference Information

DSA: 2300