Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 9.04 / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : nss vulnerabilities (USN-1007-1)

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VPR Score: 6.1

Synopsis

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

Description

Richard Moore discovered that NSS would sometimes incorrectly match an SSL certificate which had a Common Name that used a wildcard followed by a partial IP address. While it is very unlikely that a Certificate Authority would issue such a certificate, if an attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to view sensitive information. (CVE-2010-3170)

Nelson Bolyard discovered a weakness in the Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral mode (DHE) key exchange implementation which allowed servers to use a too small key length. (CVE-2010-3173).

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1007-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 50081

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1007-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/21/2010

Updated: 9/19/2019

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

Risk Factor: High

VPR Score: 6.1

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnspr4-0d, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnspr4-0d-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnspr4-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss3-0d, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss3-1d, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss3-1d-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss3-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss3-tools, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/20/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/21/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3170, CVE-2010-3173

BID: 42817

USN: 1007-1