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openSUSE: 2020:0955-1 Moderate: mozilla-nss Key Generation Risk

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Calendar Grey July 13, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The recent update for mozilla-nss fixes a critical vulnerability in RSA key generation that could be exploited through side channel methods and enhances FIPS compliance
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.

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 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-955=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (i586 x86_64):

libfreebl3-3.53.1-lp152.2.4.1

libfreebl3-debuginfo-3.53.1-lp152.2.4.1

libfreebl3-hmac-3.53.1-lp152.2.4.1

libsoftokn3-3.53.1-lp152.2.4.1

libsoftokn3-debuginfo-3.53.1-lp152.2.4.1

libsoftokn3-hmac-3.53.1-lp152.2.4.1

mozilla-nss-3.53.1-lp152.2.4.1

mozilla-nss-certs-3.53.1-lp152.2.4.1

mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo-3.53.1-lp152.2.4.1

mozilla-nss-debuginfo-3.53.1-lp152.2.4.1

mozilla-nss-debugsource-3.53.1-lp152.2.4.1

mozilla-nss-devel-3.53.1-lp152.2.4.1

mozilla-nss-sysinit-3.53.1-lp152.2.4.1

mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo-3.53.1-lp152.2.4.1

mozilla-nss-tools-3.53.1-lp152.2.4.1

mozilla-nss-tools-debuginfo-3.53.1-lp152.2.4.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

libfreebl3-32bit-3.53.1-lp152.2.4.1

libfreebl3-32bit-debuginfo-3.53.1-lp152.2.4.1

libfreebl3-hmac-32bit-3.53.1-lp152.2.4.1

libsoftokn3-32bit-3.53.1-lp152.2.4.1

libsoftokn3-32bit-debuginfo-3.53.1-lp152.2.4.1

libsoftokn3-hmac-32bit-3.53.1-lp152.2.4.1

mozilla-nss-32bit-3.53.1-lp152.2.4.1

mozilla-nss-32bit-debuginfo-3.53.1-lp152.2.4.1

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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-2020:0955-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 le.

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