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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.64758
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1874-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'nss' package(s) announced via the DSA-1874-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'nss' package(s) announced via the DSA-1874-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Network Security Service libraries. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2009-2404

Moxie Marlinspike discovered that a buffer overflow in the regular expression parser could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2009-2408

Dan Kaminsky discovered that NULL characters in certificate names could lead to man-in-the-middle attacks by tricking the user into accepting a rogue certificate.

CVE-2009-2409

Certificates with MD2 hash signatures are no longer accepted since they're no longer considered cryptograhically secure.

The old stable distribution (etch) doesn't contain nss.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 3.12.3.1-0lenny1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 3.12.3.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your nss packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'nss' package(s) on Debian 5.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
9.3

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-2404
1021030
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021030.1-1
1021699
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021699.1-1
273910
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-273910-1
35891
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35891
36088
http://secunia.com/advisories/36088
36102
http://secunia.com/advisories/36102
36125
http://secunia.com/advisories/36125
36139
http://secunia.com/advisories/36139
36157
http://secunia.com/advisories/36157
36434
http://secunia.com/advisories/36434
37098
http://secunia.com/advisories/37098
39428
http://secunia.com/advisories/39428
ADV-2009-2085
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2085
DSA-1874
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1874
MDVSA-2009:197
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:197
MDVSA-2009:216
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:216
RHSA-2009:1185
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1185.html
RHSA-2009:1207
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1207.html
SUSE-SA:2009:048
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2009_48_firefox.html
TA10-103B
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-103B.html
USN-810-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-810-1
USN-810-2
https://usn.ubuntu.com/810-2/
http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/MARLINSPIKE/BHUSA09-Marlinspike-DefeatSSL-SLIDES.pdf
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-43.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2010-099504.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512912
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11174
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11174
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8658
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8658
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-2408
1022632
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022632
36669
http://secunia.com/advisories/36669
56723
http://osvdb.org/56723
ADV-2009-3184
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184
MDVSA-2009:217
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:217
RHSA-2009:1432
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1432.html
SUSE-SR:2009:018
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html
[oss-security] 20090903 More CVE-2009-2408 like issues
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125198917018936&w=2
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7003
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-42.html
http://www.openldap.org/devel/cvsweb.cgi/libraries/libldap/tls_m.c.diff?r1=1.8&r2=1.11&f=h
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/kaminsky/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510251
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10751
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10751
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8458
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8458
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-2409
1022631
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022631
20101207 VMSA-2010-0019 VMware ESX third party updates for Service Console
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515055/100/0/threaded
36739
http://secunia.com/advisories/36739
37386
http://secunia.com/advisories/37386
42467
http://secunia.com/advisories/42467
ADV-2010-3126
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3126
APPLE-SA-2009-11-09-1
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html
DSA-1888
https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1888
GLSA-200911-02
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
GLSA-200912-01
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200912-01.xml
MDVSA-2009:258
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:258
MDVSA-2010:084
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:084
RHSA-2010:0095
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html
[syslog-ng-announce] 20110110 syslog-ng Premium Edition 3.0.6a has been released
https://lists.balabit.com/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2011-January/000101.html
[syslog-ng-announce] 20110110 syslog-ng Premium Edition 3.2.1a has been released
https://lists.balabit.com/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2011-January/000102.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0019.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-2409
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10763
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10763
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6631
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6631
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7155
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7155
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8594
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8594
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