FreeBSD : NSS -- RSA Signature Forgery (48108fb0-751c-4cbb-8f33-09239ead4b55)

high Nessus Plugin ID 77883

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The Mozilla Project reports :

Antoine Delignat-Lavaud discovered that NSS is vulnerable to a variant of a signature forgery attack previously published by Daniel Bleichenbacher. This is due to lenient parsing of ASN.1 values involved in a signature and could lead to the forging of RSA certificates.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 77883

File Name: freebsd_pkg_48108fb0751c4cbb8f3309239ead4b55.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 9/26/2014

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:linux-c6-nss, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:linux-firefox, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:linux-seamonkey, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:linux-thunderbird, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:nss, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 9/25/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/23/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1568

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