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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: RHSA-2013:1829-01 Important: nss, nspr Update

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Calendar Grey December 12, 2013
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial enhancements for nss, nspr, and nss-util packages have been released to tackle various security vulnerabilities in RHEL.
Updated nss, nspr, and nss-util packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Summary

Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support the cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system facilities.
A flaw was found in the way NSS handled invalid handshake packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a TLS/SSL client using NSS to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2013-5605)
It was found that the fix for CVE-2013-1620 released via RHSA-2013:1135 introduced a regression causing NSS to read uninitialized data when a decryption failure occurred. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a TLS/SSL server using NSS to crash. (CVE-2013-1739)
An integer overflow flaw was discovered in both NSS and NSPR's implementation of certification parsing on 64-bit systems. A remote attacker could use these flaws to cause an application using NSS or NSPR to crash. (CVE-2013-1741, CVE-2013-5607)
It was discovered that NSS did not reject certificates with incompatible key usage constraints when validating them while the verifyLog feature was enabled. An application using the NSS certificate validation API could accept an invalid certificate. (CVE-2013-5606)
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting CVE-2013-1741, CVE-2013-5606, and CVE-2013-5607. Upstream acknowledges Tavis Ormandy as the original reporter of CVE-2013-1741, Camilo Viecco as the original reporter of CVE-2013-5606, and Pascal Cuoq, Kamil Dudka, and Wan-Teh Chang as the original reporters of CVE-2013-5607.
All NSS, NSPR, and nss-util users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. After installing this update, applications using NSS, NSPR, or nss-util must be restarted for this update to take effect.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1739 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1741 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-5605 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-5606 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-5607 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2013-103/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source:
i386: nspr-4.10.2-1.el6_5.i686.rpm nspr-debuginfo-4.10.2-1.el6_5.i686.rpm nss-3.15.3-2.el6_5.i686.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.15.3-2.el6_5.i686.rpm nss-sysinit-3.15.3-2.el6_5.i686.rpm nss-tools-3.15.3-2.el6_5.i686.rpm nss-util-3.15.3-1.el6_5.i686.rpm nss-util-debuginfo-3.15.3-1.el6_5.i686.rpm
x86_64: nspr-4.10.2-1.el6_5.i686.rpm nspr-4.10.2-1.el6_5.x86_64.rpm nspr-debuginfo-4.10.2-1.el6_5.i686.rpm nspr-debuginfo-4.10.2-1.el6_5.x86_64.rpm nss-3.15.3-2.el6_5.i686.rpm nss-3.15.3-2.el6_5.x86_64.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.15.3-2.el6_5.i686.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.15.3-2.el6_5.x86_64.rpm nss-sysinit-3.15.3-2.el6_5.x86_64.rpm nss-tools-3.15.3-2.el6_5.x86_64.rpm nss-util-3.15.3-1.el6_5.i686.rpm nss-util-3.15.3-1.el6_5.x86_64.rpm nss-util-debuginfo-3.15.3-1.el6_5.i686.rpm nss-util-debuginfo-3.15.3-1.el6_5.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6):
Source:
i386: nspr-debuginfo-4.10.2-1.el6_5.i686.rpm nspr-devel-4.10.2-1.el6_5.i686.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.15.3-2.el6_5.i686.rpm nss-devel-3.15.3-2.el6_5.i686.rpm nss-pkcs11-devel-3.15.3-2.el6_5.i686.rpm nss-util-debuginfo-3.15.3-1.el6_5.i686.rpm nss-util-devel-3.15.3-1.el6_5.i686.rpm
x86_64: nspr-debuginfo-4.10.2-1.el6_5.i686.rpm nspr-debuginfo-4.10.2-1.el6_5.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2013:1829-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2013-12-12

Topic

Updated nss, nspr, and nss-util packages that fix multiple security issuesare now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as havingimportant security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) basescores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for eachvulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1012740 - CVE-2013-1739 nss: Avoid uninitialized data read in the event of a decryption failure

1030807 - CVE-2013-5605 nss: Null_Cipher() does not respect maxOutputLen (MFSA 2013-103)

1031457 - CVE-2013-5606 nss: CERT_VerifyCert returns SECSuccess (saying certificate is good) even for bad certificates (MFSA 2013-103)

1031458 - CVE-2013-1741 nss: Integer truncation in certificate parsing (MFSA 2013-103)

1031461 - CVE-2013-5607 nspr: Avoid unsigned integer wrapping in PL_ArenaAllocate (MFSA 2013-103)

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