openSUSE Security Update: NSS update to avoid signature forgery
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Announcement ID:    openSUSE-SU-2014:1224-1
Rating:             critical
References:         #897890 
Cross-References:   CVE-2014-1568
Affected Products:
                    openSUSE Evergreen 11.4
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   An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description:

   NSS is vulnerable to a variant of a signature forgery attack previously
   published by Daniel Bleichenbacher. This is due to lenient parsing of
   ASN.1 values involved in a signature and could lead to the forging of RSA
   certificates.


Patch Instructions:

   To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
   Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

   - openSUSE Evergreen 11.4:

      zypper in -t patch 2014-87

   To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".


Package List:

   - openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (i586 x86_64):

      libfreebl3-3.16.5-98.1
      libfreebl3-debuginfo-3.16.5-98.1
      libsoftokn3-3.16.5-98.1
      libsoftokn3-debuginfo-3.16.5-98.1
      mozilla-nss-3.16.5-98.1
      mozilla-nss-certs-3.16.5-98.1
      mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo-3.16.5-98.1
      mozilla-nss-debuginfo-3.16.5-98.1
      mozilla-nss-debugsource-3.16.5-98.1
      mozilla-nss-devel-3.16.5-98.1
      mozilla-nss-sysinit-3.16.5-98.1
      mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo-3.16.5-98.1
      mozilla-nss-tools-3.16.5-98.1
      mozilla-nss-tools-debuginfo-3.16.5-98.1

   - openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (x86_64):

      libfreebl3-32bit-3.16.5-98.1
      libfreebl3-debuginfo-32bit-3.16.5-98.1
      libsoftokn3-32bit-3.16.5-98.1
      libsoftokn3-debuginfo-32bit-3.16.5-98.1
      mozilla-nss-32bit-3.16.5-98.1
      mozilla-nss-certs-32bit-3.16.5-98.1
      mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo-32bit-3.16.5-98.1
      mozilla-nss-debuginfo-32bit-3.16.5-98.1
      mozilla-nss-sysinit-32bit-3.16.5-98.1
      mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo-32bit-3.16.5-98.1

   - openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (ia64):

      libfreebl3-debuginfo-x86-3.16.5-98.1
      libfreebl3-x86-3.16.5-98.1
      libsoftokn3-debuginfo-x86-3.16.5-98.1
      libsoftokn3-x86-3.16.5-98.1
      mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo-x86-3.16.5-98.1
      mozilla-nss-certs-x86-3.16.5-98.1
      mozilla-nss-debuginfo-x86-3.16.5-98.1
      mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo-x86-3.16.5-98.1
      mozilla-nss-sysinit-x86-3.16.5-98.1
      mozilla-nss-x86-3.16.5-98.1


References:

   https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1568.html
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=897890

openSUSE: 2014:1224-1: critical: NSS avoid signature forgery

September 28, 2014
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

NSS is vulnerable to a variant of a signature forgery attack previously published by Daniel Bleichenbacher. This is due to lenient parsing of ASN.1 values involved in a signature and could lead to the forging of RSA certificates.

 

Patch

Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE Evergreen 11.4: zypper in -t patch 2014-87 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".


Package List

- openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (i586 x86_64): libfreebl3-3.16.5-98.1 libfreebl3-debuginfo-3.16.5-98.1 libsoftokn3-3.16.5-98.1 libsoftokn3-debuginfo-3.16.5-98.1 mozilla-nss-3.16.5-98.1 mozilla-nss-certs-3.16.5-98.1 mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo-3.16.5-98.1 mozilla-nss-debuginfo-3.16.5-98.1 mozilla-nss-debugsource-3.16.5-98.1 mozilla-nss-devel-3.16.5-98.1 mozilla-nss-sysinit-3.16.5-98.1 mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo-3.16.5-98.1 mozilla-nss-tools-3.16.5-98.1 mozilla-nss-tools-debuginfo-3.16.5-98.1 - openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (x86_64): libfreebl3-32bit-3.16.5-98.1 libfreebl3-debuginfo-32bit-3.16.5-98.1 libsoftokn3-32bit-3.16.5-98.1 libsoftokn3-debuginfo-32bit-3.16.5-98.1 mozilla-nss-32bit-3.16.5-98.1 mozilla-nss-certs-32bit-3.16.5-98.1 mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo-32bit-3.16.5-98.1 mozilla-nss-debuginfo-32bit-3.16.5-98.1 mozilla-nss-sysinit-32bit-3.16.5-98.1 mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo-32bit-3.16.5-98.1 - openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (ia64): libfreebl3-debuginfo-x86-3.16.5-98.1 libfreebl3-x86-3.16.5-98.1 libsoftokn3-debuginfo-x86-3.16.5-98.1 libsoftokn3-x86-3.16.5-98.1 mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo-x86-3.16.5-98.1 mozilla-nss-certs-x86-3.16.5-98.1 mozilla-nss-debuginfo-x86-3.16.5-98.1 mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo-x86-3.16.5-98.1 mozilla-nss-sysinit-x86-3.16.5-98.1 mozilla-nss-x86-3.16.5-98.1


References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1568.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=897890


Severity
Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2014:1224-1
Rating: critical
Affected Products: openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 .

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