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OracleVM 3.3 / 3.4 : nss (OVMSA-2018-0264)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 118051

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Synopsis

The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates :

 - Added nss-vendor.patch to change vendor

 - Temporarily disable some tests until expired PayPalEE.cert is renewed

 - Backport upstream fix for (CVE-2018-12384)

 - Remove nss-lockcert-api-change.patch, which turned out to be a mistake (the symbol was not exported from libnss)

 - Restore CERT_LockCertTrust and CERT_UnlockCertTrust back in cert.h

 - rebuild

 - Keep legacy code signing trust flags for backwards compatibility

 - Decrease the iteration count of PKCS#12 for compatibility with Windows

 - Fix deadlock when a token is re-inserted while a client process is running

 - Ignore tests which only works with newer nss-softokn

 - Use the correct tarball of NSS 3.36 release

 - Ignore EncryptDeriveTest which only works with newer nss-softokn

 - Don't skip non-FIPS and ECC test cases in ssl.sh

 - Rebase to NSS 3.36.0

 - Rebase to NSS 3.36.0 BETA

 - Remove upstreamed nss-is-token-present-race.patch

 - Revert the upstream changes that default to sql database

 - Replace race.patch and nss-3.16-token-init-race.patch with a proper upstream fix

 - Don't restrict nss_cycles to sharedb

 - Rebase to NSS 3.34.0

Solution

Update the affected nss / nss-sysinit / nss-tools packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b587c29b

http://www.nessus.org/u?f394e86a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 118051

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2018-0264.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 10/11/2018

Updated: 2/10/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12384

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:nss, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:nss-sysinit, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:nss-tools, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.3, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.4

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/10/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12384