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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.10 : nspr vulnerability (USN-2087-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 72115

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

It was discovered that NSPR incorrectly handled certain malformed X.509 certificates. A remote attacker could use a crafted X.509 certificate to cause NSPR to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected libnspr4 and / or libnspr4-0d packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2087-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 72115

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2087-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnspr4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnspr4-0d, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/23/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/20/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-5607

BID: 63802

USN: 2087-1