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EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : nss (EulerOS-SA-2021-1268)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 146249

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the nss packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - During ECDSA signature generation, padding applied in the nonce designed to ensure constant-time scalar multiplication was removed, resulting in variable-time execution dependent on secret data. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 80 and Firefox for Android < 80.(CVE-2020-12401)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS 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

http://www.nessus.org/u?24c40fd2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 146249

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-1268.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 2/5/2021

Updated: 1/23/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-12401

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/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:huawei:euleros:nss, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:nss-softokn, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:nss-util, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

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

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/5/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12401