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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: RHSA-2018-2898-01 Moderate: NSS Update

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Calendar Grey October 9, 2018
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Hash: SHA256 Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Moderate: nss security update Advisory ID: RHSA-201
An update for nss is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing this update, applications using NSS (for example, Firefox) must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Summary

Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support the cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications.
Security Fix(es):
* nss: ServerHello.random is all zeros when handling a v2-compatible ClientHello (CVE-2018-12384)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat security fix network services nss

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12384 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: nss-3.36.0-9.el6_10.src.rpm
i386: nss-3.36.0-9.el6_10.i686.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.36.0-9.el6_10.i686.rpm nss-sysinit-3.36.0-9.el6_10.i686.rpm nss-tools-3.36.0-9.el6_10.i686.rpm
x86_64: nss-3.36.0-9.el6_10.i686.rpm nss-3.36.0-9.el6_10.x86_64.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.36.0-9.el6_10.i686.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.36.0-9.el6_10.x86_64.rpm nss-sysinit-3.36.0-9.el6_10.x86_64.rpm nss-tools-3.36.0-9.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6):
i386: nss-debuginfo-3.36.0-9.el6_10.i686.rpm nss-devel-3.36.0-9.el6_10.i686.rpm nss-pkcs11-devel-3.36.0-9.el6_10.i686.rpm
x86_64: nss-debuginfo-3.36.0-9.el6_10.i686.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.36.0-9.el6_10.x86_64.rpm nss-devel-3.36.0-9.el6_10.i686.rpm nss-devel-3.36.0-9.el6_10.x86_64.rpm nss-pkcs11-devel-3.36.0-9.el6_10.i686.rpm nss-pkcs11-devel-3.36.0-9.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6):
Source: nss-3.36.0-9.el6_10.src.rpm
x86_64: nss-3.36.0-9.el6_10.i686.rpm nss-3.36.0-9.el6_10.x86_64.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.36.0-9.el6_10.i686.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.36.0-9.el6_10.x86_64.rpm nss-sysinit-3.36.0-9.el6_10.x86_64.rpm nss-tools-3.36.0-9.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6):
x86_64: nss-debuginfo-3.36.0-9.el6_10.i686.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2898-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2898
Issue date: 2018-10-09

Topic

An update for nss is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat security fix network services nss

Relevant Releases Architectures

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 (v. 6) - 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

1622089 - CVE-2018-12384 nss: ServerHello.random is all zeros when handling a v2-compatible ClientHello

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