Summary
The remote host is missing an update to fixed
announced via advisory USN-810-2.
Original advisory details:
Moxie Marlinspike discovered that NSS did not properly handle regular expressions in certificate names. A remote attacker could create a specially crafted certificate to cause a denial of service (via application crash) or execute arbitrary code as the user invoking the program.
(CVE-2009-2404)
Moxie Marlinspike and Dan Kaminsky independently discovered that NSS did not properly handle certificates with NULL characters in the certificate name. An attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications.
(CVE-2009-2408)
Dan Kaminsky discovered NSS would still accept certificates with MD2 hash signatures. As a result, an attacker could potentially create a malicious trusted certificate to impersonate another site. (CVE-2009-2409)
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-810-2
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-2404, CVE-2009-2408, CVE-2009-2409 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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