Debian DLA-154-1 : nss security update (BEAST)

high Nessus Plugin ID 82137

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

nss 3.12.8-1+squeeze11 fixes two security issues :

CVE-2011-3389

SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 connections were vulnerable to some chosen plaintext attacks which allowed man-in-the middle attackers to obtain plaintext HTTP headers on an HTTPS session. This issue is known as the 'BEAST' attack.

CVE-2014-1569

Possible information leak with too-permissive ASN.1 DER decoding of length.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/02/msg00008.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/nss

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 82137

File Name: debian_DLA-154.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/26/2015

Updated: 12/5/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss3-1d, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss3-1d-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss3-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss3-tools, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/16/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3389, CVE-2014-1569

BID: 49388, 49778, 71675