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openSUSE 11.4: 2014:1224-2 Urgent: TLS Connection Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey September 28, 2014
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An urgent security update addresses a critical TLS connection flaw in NSS for openSUSE, ensuring user trust.
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-...

Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1568.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=897890

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

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