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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS : nspr update (USN-927-5)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 47160

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

USN-927-4 fixed vulnerabilities in NSS. This update provides the NSPR needed to use the new NSS.

Marsh Ray and Steve Dispensa discovered a flaw in the TLS and SSLv3 protocols. If an attacker could perform a man in the middle attack at the start of a TLS connection, the attacker could inject arbitrary content at the beginning of the user's session. This update adds support for the new new renegotiation extension and will use it when the server supports it.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected libnspr4-0d, libnspr4-0d-dbg and / or libnspr4-dev packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/927-5/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 47160

File Name: ubuntu_USN-927-5.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/30/2010

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnspr4-0d-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnspr4-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnspr4-0d, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/29/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/29/2010

Reference Information

BID: 36935

USN: 927-5