Debian DLA-2058-1 : nss security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 132682

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was found that certain cryptographic primitives in nss, the Network Security Service libraries, did not check the length of the input text. This could result in a potential heap-based buffer overflow.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.26-1+debu8u10.

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/2020/01/msg00004.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 132682

File Name: debian_DLA-2058.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/7/2020

Updated: 4/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-17006

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/6/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-17006