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openSUSE Leap 15.1: openSUSE-SU-2020:0953-1 Moderate RSA Attack Fix

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Calendar Grey July 13, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A significant security alert for openSUSE users concerning mozilla-nss highlights a severe vulnerability linked to RSA encryption methods.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available.

Description

This update for mozilla-nss fixes the following issues:

mozilla-nss was updated to version 3.53.1

- CVE-2020-12402: Fixed a potential side channel attack during RSA key

generation (bsc#1173032)

- Fixed various FIPS issues in libfreebl3 which were causing segfaults in

the test suite of chrony (bsc#1168669).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update openSUSE RSA attack mozilla-nss

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-953=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (i586 x86_64):

libfreebl3-3.53.1-lp151.2.26.1

libfreebl3-debuginfo-3.53.1-lp151.2.26.1

libfreebl3-hmac-3.53.1-lp151.2.26.1

libsoftokn3-3.53.1-lp151.2.26.1

libsoftokn3-debuginfo-3.53.1-lp151.2.26.1

libsoftokn3-hmac-3.53.1-lp151.2.26.1

mozilla-nss-3.53.1-lp151.2.26.1

mozilla-nss-certs-3.53.1-lp151.2.26.1

mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo-3.53.1-lp151.2.26.1

mozilla-nss-debuginfo-3.53.1-lp151.2.26.1

mozilla-nss-debugsource-3.53.1-lp151.2.26.1

mozilla-nss-devel-3.53.1-lp151.2.26.1

mozilla-nss-sysinit-3.53.1-lp151.2.26.1

mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo-3.53.1-lp151.2.26.1

mozilla-nss-tools-3.53.1-lp151.2.26.1

mozilla-nss-tools-debuginfo-3.53.1-lp151.2.26.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

libfreebl3-32bit-3.53.1-lp151.2.26.1

libfreebl3-32bit-debuginfo-3.53.1-lp151.2.26.1

libfreebl3-hmac-32bit-3.53.1-lp151.2.26.1

libsoftokn3-32bit-3.53.1-lp151.2.26.1

libsoftokn3-32bit-debuginfo-3.53.1-lp151.2.26.1

libsoftokn3-hmac-32bit-3.53.1-lp151.2.26.1

mozilla-nss-32bit-3.53.1-lp151.2.26.1

mozilla-nss-32bit-debuginfo-...

Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12402.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1168669

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1173032

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0953-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 le.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update openSUSE RSA attack mozilla-nss

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