Debian DLA-1704-1 : nss security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 122604

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Vulnerabilities have been discovered in nss, the Mozilla Network Security Service library.

CVE-2018-12404

Cache side-channel variant of the Bleichenbacher attack

CVE-2018-18508

NULL pointer dereference in several CMS functions resulting in a denial of service

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 2:3.26-1+debu8u4.

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.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00006.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 122604

File Name: debian_DLA-1704.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/5/2019

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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 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: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:8.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/4/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/2/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12404, CVE-2018-18508