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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2019-4114-01 Important: NSS Security Issue

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Calendar Grey December 9, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
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An update for nss is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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: Out-of-bounds write when passing an output buffer smaller than the block size to NSC_EncryptUpdate (CVE-2019-11745)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat important security impact updates out-of-bounds nss

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11745 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: nss-3.44.0-9.el8_1.src.rpm
aarch64: nss-3.44.0-9.el8_1.aarch64.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.44.0-9.el8_1.aarch64.rpm nss-debugsource-3.44.0-9.el8_1.aarch64.rpm nss-devel-3.44.0-9.el8_1.aarch64.rpm nss-softokn-3.44.0-9.el8_1.aarch64.rpm nss-softokn-debuginfo-3.44.0-9.el8_1.aarch64.rpm nss-softokn-devel-3.44.0-9.el8_1.aarch64.rpm nss-softokn-freebl-3.44.0-9.el8_1.aarch64.rpm nss-softokn-freebl-debuginfo-3.44.0-9.el8_1.aarch64.rpm nss-softokn-freebl-devel-3.44.0-9.el8_1.aarch64.rpm nss-sysinit-3.44.0-9.el8_1.aarch64.rpm nss-sysinit-debuginfo-3.44.0-9.el8_1.aarch64.rpm nss-tools-3.44.0-9.el8_1.aarch64.rpm nss-tools-debuginfo-3.44.0-9.el8_1.aarch64.rpm nss-util-3.44.0-9.el8_1.aarch64.rpm nss-util-debuginfo-3.44.0-9.el8_1.aarch64.rpm nss-util-devel-3.44.0-9.el8_1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: nss-3.44.0-9.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.44.0-9.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm nss-debugsource-3.44.0-9.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm nss-devel-3.44.0-9.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm nss-softokn-3.44.0-9.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm nss-softokn-debuginfo-3.44.0-9.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm nss-softokn-devel-3.44.0-9.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm nss-softokn-freebl-3.44.0-9.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm nss-softokn-freebl-debuginfo-3.44.0-9.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm nss-softokn-freebl-devel-3.44.0-9.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:4114-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4114
Issue date: 2019-12-09

Topic

An update for nss is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat important security impact updates out-of-bounds nss

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1774831 - CVE-2019-11745 nss: Out-of-bounds write when passing an output buffer smaller than the block size to NSC_EncryptUpdate

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