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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 7: RHSA-2014-0916-01 Critical NSS Update

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Calendar Grey July 22, 2014
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Revised ssh and tls packages tackle severe vulnerabilities for CentOS 6 and 8 users. Enhance security by installing the latest versions.
Updated nss and nspr packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 7

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/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 race condition was found in the way NSS verified certain certificates. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash an application using NSS or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running that application. (CVE-2014-1544)
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting CVE-2014-1544. Upstream acknowledges Tyson Smith and Jesse Schwartzentruber as the original reporters.
Users of NSS and NSPR are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct this issue. After installing this update, applications using NSS or NSPR must be restarted for this update to take effect.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical remote code execution Red Hat Enterprise Linux NSS update system package update NPR patch

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1544 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source: nspr-4.10.6-1.el5_10.src.rpm nss-3.15.3-7.el5_10.src.rpm
i386: nspr-4.10.6-1.el5_10.i386.rpm nspr-debuginfo-4.10.6-1.el5_10.i386.rpm nss-3.15.3-7.el5_10.i386.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.15.3-7.el5_10.i386.rpm nss-tools-3.15.3-7.el5_10.i386.rpm
x86_64: nspr-4.10.6-1.el5_10.i386.rpm nspr-4.10.6-1.el5_10.x86_64.rpm nspr-debuginfo-4.10.6-1.el5_10.i386.rpm nspr-debuginfo-4.10.6-1.el5_10.x86_64.rpm nss-3.15.3-7.el5_10.i386.rpm nss-3.15.3-7.el5_10.x86_64.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.15.3-7.el5_10.i386.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.15.3-7.el5_10.x86_64.rpm nss-tools-3.15.3-7.el5_10.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):
Source: nspr-4.10.6-1.el5_10.src.rpm nss-3.15.3-7.el5_10.src.rpm
i386: nspr-debuginfo-4.10.6-1.el5_10.i386.rpm nspr-devel-4.10.6-1.el5_10.i386.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.15.3-7.el5_10.i386.rpm nss-devel-3.15.3-7.el5_10.i386.rpm nss-pkcs11-devel-3.15.3-7.el5_10.i386.rpm
x86_64: nspr-debuginfo-4.10.6-1.el5_10.i386.rpm nspr-debuginfo-4.10.6-1.el5_10.x86_64.rpm nspr-devel-4.10.6-1.el5_10.i386.rpm nspr-devel-4.10.6-1.el5_10.x86_64.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.15.3-7.el5_10.i386.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.15.3-7.el5_10.x86_64.rpm nss-devel-3.15.3-7.el5_10.i386.rpm nss-devel-3.15.3-7.el5_10.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2014:0916-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0916.html
Issue date: 2014-07-22

Topic

Updated nss and nspr packages that fix one security issue are now availablefor Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 7.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Criticalsecurity impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link inthe References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical remote code execution Red Hat Enterprise Linux NSS update system package update NPR patch

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1116198 - CVE-2014-1544 nss: Race-condition in certificate verification can lead to Remote code execution (MFSA 2014-63)

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