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AlmaLinux 8 : nss (ALSA-2021:4903)

2022-02-0900:00:00
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The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2021:4903 advisory.

  • NSS (Network Security Services) versions prior to 3.73 or 3.68.1 ESR are vulnerable to a heap overflow when handling DER-encoded DSA or RSA-PSS signatures. Applications using NSS for handling signatures encoded within CMS, S/MIME, PKCS #7, or PKCS #12 are likely to be impacted. Applications using NSS for certificate validation or other TLS, X.509, OCSP or CRL functionality may be impacted, depending on how they configure NSS. Note: This vulnerability does NOT impact Mozilla Firefox. However, email clients and PDF viewers that use NSS for signature verification, such as Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Evolution and Evince are believed to be impacted. This vulnerability affects NSS < 3.73 and NSS < 3.68.1.
    (CVE-2021-43527)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
##
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The package checks in this plugin were extracted from
# AlmaLinux Security Advisory ALSA-2021:4903.
##

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(157641);
  script_version("1.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/11/10");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2021-43527");
  script_xref(name:"ALSA", value:"2021:4903");

  script_name(english:"AlmaLinux 8 : nss (ALSA-2021:4903)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote AlmaLinux host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the
ALSA-2021:4903 advisory.

  - NSS (Network Security Services) versions prior to 3.73 or 3.68.1 ESR are vulnerable to a heap overflow
    when handling DER-encoded DSA or RSA-PSS signatures. Applications using NSS for handling signatures
    encoded within CMS, S/MIME, PKCS \#7, or PKCS \#12 are likely to be impacted. Applications using NSS for
    certificate validation or other TLS, X.509, OCSP or CRL functionality may be impacted, depending on how
    they configure NSS. *Note: This vulnerability does NOT impact Mozilla Firefox.* However, email clients and
    PDF viewers that use NSS for signature verification, such as Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Evolution and
    Evince are believed to be impacted. This vulnerability affects NSS < 3.73 and NSS < 3.68.1.
    (CVE-2021-43527)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2021-4903.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2021-43527");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2021/12/01");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2021/12/01");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2022/02/09");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nss");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nss-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nss-softokn");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nss-softokn-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nss-softokn-freebl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nss-softokn-freebl-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nss-sysinit");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nss-tools");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nss-util");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nss-util-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:8");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Alma Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2022-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AlmaLinux/release", "Host/AlmaLinux/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

  exit(0);
}


include('audit.inc');
include('global_settings.inc');
include('misc_func.inc');
include('rpm.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var release = get_kb_item('Host/AlmaLinux/release');
if (isnull(release) || 'AlmaLinux' >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'AlmaLinux');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "AlmaLinux release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'AlmaLinux');
var os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^8([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'AlmaLinux 8.x', 'AlmaLinux ' + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item('Host/AlmaLinux/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'AlmaLinux', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'nss-3.67.0-7.el8_5', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'nss-3.67.0-7.el8_5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'nss-devel-3.67.0-7.el8_5', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'nss-devel-3.67.0-7.el8_5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'nss-softokn-3.67.0-7.el8_5', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'nss-softokn-3.67.0-7.el8_5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'nss-softokn-devel-3.67.0-7.el8_5', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'nss-softokn-devel-3.67.0-7.el8_5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'nss-softokn-freebl-3.67.0-7.el8_5', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'nss-softokn-freebl-3.67.0-7.el8_5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'nss-softokn-freebl-devel-3.67.0-7.el8_5', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'nss-softokn-freebl-devel-3.67.0-7.el8_5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'nss-sysinit-3.67.0-7.el8_5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'nss-tools-3.67.0-7.el8_5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'nss-util-3.67.0-7.el8_5', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'nss-util-3.67.0-7.el8_5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'nss-util-devel-3.67.0-7.el8_5', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'nss-util-devel-3.67.0-7.el8_5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var reference = NULL;
  var release = NULL;
  var sp = NULL;
  var cpu = NULL;
  var el_string = NULL;
  var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
  var epoch = NULL;
  var allowmaj = NULL;
  var exists_check = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) release = 'Alma-' + package_array['release'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) cpu = package_array['cpu'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
  if (reference && release && (!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:release, rpm:exists_check))) {
    if (rpm_check(release:release, sp:sp, cpu:cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
      extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'nss / nss-devel / nss-softokn / nss-softokn-devel / nss-softokn-freebl / etc');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
almalinuxnssp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nss
almalinuxnss-develp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nss-devel
almalinuxnss-softoknp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nss-softokn
almalinuxnss-softokn-develp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nss-softokn-devel
almalinuxnss-softokn-freeblp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nss-softokn-freebl
almalinuxnss-softokn-freebl-develp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nss-softokn-freebl-devel
almalinuxnss-sysinitp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nss-sysinit
almalinuxnss-toolsp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nss-tools
almalinuxnss-utilp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nss-util
almalinuxnss-util-develp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:nss-util-devel
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