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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2023:1252-01 Important NSS Memory Issue

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Calendar Grey March 15, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A significant patch for NSS on Red Hat Enterprise Linux tackles vital vulnerabilities. Discover its potential impacts.
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: Arbitrary memory write via PKCS 12 (CVE-2023-0767)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat memory issue important update NSS cross-platform security

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-0767 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: nss-3.79.0-11.el8_7.src.rpm
aarch64: nss-3.79.0-11.el8_7.aarch64.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.79.0-11.el8_7.aarch64.rpm nss-debugsource-3.79.0-11.el8_7.aarch64.rpm nss-devel-3.79.0-11.el8_7.aarch64.rpm nss-softokn-3.79.0-11.el8_7.aarch64.rpm nss-softokn-debuginfo-3.79.0-11.el8_7.aarch64.rpm nss-softokn-devel-3.79.0-11.el8_7.aarch64.rpm nss-softokn-freebl-3.79.0-11.el8_7.aarch64.rpm nss-softokn-freebl-debuginfo-3.79.0-11.el8_7.aarch64.rpm nss-softokn-freebl-devel-3.79.0-11.el8_7.aarch64.rpm nss-sysinit-3.79.0-11.el8_7.aarch64.rpm nss-sysinit-debuginfo-3.79.0-11.el8_7.aarch64.rpm nss-tools-3.79.0-11.el8_7.aarch64.rpm nss-tools-debuginfo-3.79.0-11.el8_7.aarch64.rpm nss-util-3.79.0-11.el8_7.aarch64.rpm nss-util-debuginfo-3.79.0-11.el8_7.aarch64.rpm nss-util-devel-3.79.0-11.el8_7.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: nss-3.79.0-11.el8_7.ppc64le.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.79.0-11.el8_7.ppc64le.rpm nss-debugsource-3.79.0-11.el8_7.ppc64le.rpm nss-devel-3.79.0-11.el8_7.ppc64le.rpm nss-softokn-3.79.0-11.el8_7.ppc64le.rpm nss-softokn-debuginfo-3.79.0-11.el8_7.ppc64le.rpm nss-softokn-devel-3.79.0-11.el8_7.ppc64le.rpm nss-softokn-freebl-3.79.0-11.el8_7.ppc64le.rpm nss-softokn-freebl-debuginfo-3.79.0-11.el8_7.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:1252-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1252
Issue date: 2023-03-15

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 memory issue important update NSS cross-platform security

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

2170377 - CVE-2023-0767 nss: Arbitrary memory write via PKCS 12

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