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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 RHSA-2020:0466-01 Vital: nss-softokn Upgrade

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Calendar Grey February 11, 2020
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An essential security patch for nss-softokn has been released, addressing significant vulnerabilities for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6.
An update for nss-softokn is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Advanced Update Support

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

Summary

The nss-softokn package provides the Network Security Services Softoken Cryptographic Module.
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 update important security impact red hat enterprise nss-softokn out-of-bounds write

References

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

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 6.6):
Source: nss-softokn-3.14.3-23.el6_6.src.rpm
x86_64: nss-softokn-3.14.3-23.el6_6.i686.rpm nss-softokn-3.14.3-23.el6_6.x86_64.rpm nss-softokn-debuginfo-3.14.3-23.el6_6.i686.rpm nss-softokn-debuginfo-3.14.3-23.el6_6.x86_64.rpm nss-softokn-devel-3.14.3-23.el6_6.i686.rpm nss-softokn-devel-3.14.3-23.el6_6.x86_64.rpm nss-softokn-freebl-3.14.3-23.el6_6.i686.rpm nss-softokn-freebl-3.14.3-23.el6_6.x86_64.rpm nss-softokn-freebl-devel-3.14.3-23.el6_6.i686.rpm nss-softokn-freebl-devel-3.14.3-23.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:0466-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0466
Issue date: 2020-02-11

Topic

An update for nss-softokn is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6Advanced Update Support.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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update important security impact red hat enterprise nss-softokn out-of-bounds write

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 6.6) - 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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