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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.702790
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2790-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'nss' package(s) announced via the DSA-2790-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'nss' package(s) announced via the DSA-2790-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
A flaw was found in the way the Mozilla Network Security Service library (nss) read uninitialized data when there was a decryption failure. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service (application crash) for applications linked with the nss library.

The oldstable distribution (squeeze) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.14.4-1.

The packages in the stable distribution were updated to the latest patch release 3.14.4 of the library to also include a regression bugfix for a flaw that affects the libpkix certificate verification cache. More information can be found via:

[link moved to references]

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.15.2-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.15.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your nss packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'nss' package(s) on Debian 7.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.0

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-1739
BugTraq ID: 62966
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62966
Bugtraq: 20141205 NEW: VMSA-2014-0012 - VMware vSphere product updates address security vulnerabilities (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-2790 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2790
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-19.xml
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19254
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2013:1791
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1791.html
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2013:1829
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1829.html
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SU-2013:1678 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00014.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2013:1539 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00013.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2013:1542 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00016.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2030-1
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