openSUSE 10 Security Update : mozilla-nss (mozilla-nss-2071)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27352

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

A security problem in the SSL handling of the NSS libraries was found :

If an RSA key with exponent 3 is used it may be possible to forge a PKCS verify the certificate if they are not checking for excess data in the RSA exponentiation result of the signature.

This bug is tracked by the Mitre CVE ID CVE-2006-4340 and CVE-2006-4341.

Solution

Update the affected mozilla-nss packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27352

File Name: suse_mozilla-nss-2071.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/17/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozilla-nss-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/13/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-4340

CWE: 20

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