Fedora 16 : nss-3.14.1-3.fc16 (2013-0261)

high Nessus Plugin ID 63507

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Pick up NSS release that distrusts the mis-issued Turktrust intermediates Rebase pem sources to pick up two bug fixes from rhel-6.3

Remove fix for gcc 4.7 c++ issue in secmodt.h which actually undoes the upstream fix. Rebase pem sources to pick up two bug fixes from rhel-6.3

Remove fix for gcc 4.7 c++ issue in secmodt.h which actually undoes the upstream fix.

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847462

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891761

http://www.nessus.org/u?37454096

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 63507

File Name: fedora_2013-0261.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/14/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nss, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/5/2013

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2013-0261