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CentOS 6 : nspr / nss / nss-util (CESA-2016:0591)

2016-04-0700:00:00
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An update for nss, nss-util, and nspr is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support the cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. The nss-util packages provide utilities for use with the Network Security Services (NSS) libraries. Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system facilities.

The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version:
nss 3.21.0, nss-util 3.21.0, nspr 4.11.0. (BZ#1300629, BZ#1299874, BZ#1299861)

Security Fix(es) :

  • A use-after-free flaw was found in the way NSS handled DHE (Diffie-Hellman key exchange) and ECDHE (Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman key exchange) handshake messages. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted handshake message that, when parsed by an application linked against NSS, would cause that application to crash or, under certain special conditions, execute arbitrary code using the permissions of the user running the application. (CVE-2016-1978)

  • A use-after-free flaw was found in the way NSS processed certain DER (Distinguished Encoding Rules) encoded cryptographic keys. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted DER encoded certificate which, when parsed by an application compiled against the NSS library, could cause that application to crash, or execute arbitrary code using the permissions of the user running the application. (CVE-2016-1979)

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla Project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Eric Rescorla as the original reporter of CVE-2016-1978; and Tim Taubert as the original reporter of CVE-2016-1979.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2016:0591 and 
# CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2016:0591 respectively.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(90367);
  script_version("2.11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-1978", "CVE-2016-1979");
  script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2016:0591");

  script_name(english:"CentOS 6 : nspr / nss / nss-util (CESA-2016:0591)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"An update for nss, nss-util, and nspr is now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security
impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base
score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each
vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to
support the cross-platform development of security-enabled client and
server applications. The nss-util packages provide utilities for use
with the Network Security Services (NSS) libraries. Netscape Portable
Runtime (NSPR) provides platform independence for non-GUI operating
system facilities.

The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version:
nss 3.21.0, nss-util 3.21.0, nspr 4.11.0. (BZ#1300629, BZ#1299874,
BZ#1299861)

Security Fix(es) :

* A use-after-free flaw was found in the way NSS handled DHE
(Diffie-Hellman key exchange) and ECDHE (Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman
key exchange) handshake messages. A remote attacker could send a
specially crafted handshake message that, when parsed by an
application linked against NSS, would cause that application to crash
or, under certain special conditions, execute arbitrary code using the
permissions of the user running the application. (CVE-2016-1978)

* A use-after-free flaw was found in the way NSS processed certain DER
(Distinguished Encoding Rules) encoded cryptographic keys. An attacker
could use this flaw to create a specially crafted DER encoded
certificate which, when parsed by an application compiled against the
NSS library, could cause that application to crash, or execute
arbitrary code using the permissions of the user running the
application. (CVE-2016-1979)

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla Project for reporting these
issues. Upstream acknowledges Eric Rescorla as the original reporter
of CVE-2016-1978; and Tim Taubert as the original reporter of
CVE-2016-1979."
  );
  # https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2016-April/021807.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?6adae7bc"
  );
  # https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2016-April/021808.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?e9c508f2"
  );
  # https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2016-April/021809.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?88648b30"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected nspr, nss and / or nss-util 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:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2016-1978");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nspr");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nspr-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss-pkcs11-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss-sysinit");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss-tools");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss-util");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss-util-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:6");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/03/13");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/04/05");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/04/07");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"CentOS Local Security Checks");

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

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/release");
if (isnull(release) || "CentOS" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "CentOS(?: Linux)? release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "CentOS");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^6([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS 6.x", "CentOS " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


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


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"nspr-4.11.0-0.1.el6_7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"nspr-devel-4.11.0-0.1.el6_7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"nss-3.21.0-0.3.el6_7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"nss-devel-3.21.0-0.3.el6_7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"nss-pkcs11-devel-3.21.0-0.3.el6_7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"nss-sysinit-3.21.0-0.3.el6_7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"nss-tools-3.21.0-0.3.el6_7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"nss-util-3.21.0-0.3.el6_7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"nss-util-devel-3.21.0-0.3.el6_7")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
    extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "nspr / nspr-devel / nss / nss-devel / nss-pkcs11-devel / etc");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
centoscentosnsprp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nspr
centoscentosnspr-develp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nspr-devel
centoscentosnssp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss
centoscentosnss-develp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss-devel
centoscentosnss-pkcs11-develp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss-pkcs11-devel
centoscentosnss-sysinitp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss-sysinit
centoscentosnss-toolsp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss-tools
centoscentosnss-utilp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss-util
centoscentosnss-util-develp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nss-util-devel
centoscentos6cpe:/o:centos:centos:6