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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.71467
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2490-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'nss' package(s) announced via the DSA-2490-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'nss' package(s) announced via the DSA-2490-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Kaspar Brand discovered that Mozilla's Network Security Services (NSS) libraries did insufficient length checking in the QuickDER decoder, allowing to crash a program using the libraries.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.12.8-1+squeeze5.

For the testing distribution (wheezy) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2:3.13.4-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your nss packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'nss' package(s) on Debian 6.

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-2012-0441
BugTraq ID: 53798
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53798
Debian Security Information: DSA-2490 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2490
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:088
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16701
http://secunia.com/advisories/49976
http://secunia.com/advisories/50316
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SU-2012:0746 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00012.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2012:0760 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00015.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1540-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1540-2
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2012 Greenbone AG

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