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Debian DLA-23-1 : nss security update
high Nessus Plugin ID 82171
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Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security update.Description
CVE-2013-1741Runaway memset in certificate parsing on 64-bit computers leading to a crash by attempting to write 4Gb of nulls.
CVE-2013-5606
Certificate validation with the verifylog mode did not return validation errors, but instead expected applications to determine the status by looking at the log.
CVE-2014-1491
Ticket handling protection mechanisms bypass due to the lack of restriction of public values in Diffie-Hellman key exchanges.
CVE-2014-1492
Incorrect IDNA domain name matching for wildcard certificates could allow specially crafted invalid certificates to be considered as valid.
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/2014/07/msg00011.html
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 82171
File Name: debian_DLA-23.nasl
Version: 1.7
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 3/26/2015
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.8
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: 7/31/2014
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2013-1741, CVE-2013-5606, CVE-2014-1491, CVE-2014-1492