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CentOS Update for nss-util CESA-2015:1185 centos7

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

CentOS Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

4.3

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

8 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

Check the version of nss-util

Insight

Insight

Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. A flaw was found in the way the TLS protocol composes the Diffie-Hellman (DH) key exchange. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to force the use of weak 512 bit export-grade keys during the key exchange, allowing them do decrypt all traffic. (CVE-2015-4000) Note: This update forces the TLS/SSL client implementation in NSS to reject DH key sizes below 768 bits, which prevents sessions to be downgraded to export-grade keys. Future updates may raise this limit to 1024 bits. The nss and nss-util packages have been upgraded to upstream versions 3.19.1. The upgraded versions provide a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous versions. Users of nss and nss-util are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these security flaws, bugs, and add these enhancements.

Affected Software

Affected Software

nss-util on CentOS 7

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

Please install the updated packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)