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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RHSA-2023:1332-01 Important: NSS Memory Issue

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Calendar Grey March 20, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The latest update for Network Security Services in Red Hat tackles critical security vulnerabilities and provides essential patches for corporate infrastructures.
An update for nss is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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 Enterprise Linux important fix NSS update memory vulnerability

References

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

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: nss-3.79.0-5.el7_9.src.rpm
x86_64: nss-3.79.0-5.el7_9.i686.rpm nss-3.79.0-5.el7_9.x86_64.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.79.0-5.el7_9.i686.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.79.0-5.el7_9.x86_64.rpm nss-sysinit-3.79.0-5.el7_9.x86_64.rpm nss-tools-3.79.0-5.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: nss-debuginfo-3.79.0-5.el7_9.i686.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.79.0-5.el7_9.x86_64.rpm nss-devel-3.79.0-5.el7_9.i686.rpm nss-devel-3.79.0-5.el7_9.x86_64.rpm nss-pkcs11-devel-3.79.0-5.el7_9.i686.rpm nss-pkcs11-devel-3.79.0-5.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: nss-3.79.0-5.el7_9.src.rpm
x86_64: nss-3.79.0-5.el7_9.i686.rpm nss-3.79.0-5.el7_9.x86_64.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.79.0-5.el7_9.i686.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.79.0-5.el7_9.x86_64.rpm nss-sysinit-3.79.0-5.el7_9.x86_64.rpm nss-tools-3.79.0-5.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: nss-debuginfo-3.79.0-5.el7_9.i686.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.79.0-5.el7_9.x86_64.rpm nss-devel-3.79.0-5.el7_9.i686.rpm nss-devel-3.79.0-5.el7_9.x86_64.rpm nss-pkcs11-devel-3.79.0-5.el7_9.i686.rpm nss-pkcs11-devel-3.79.0-5.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: nss-3.79.0-5.el7_9.src.rpm
ppc64: nss-3.79.0-5.el7_9.ppc.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:1332-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1332
Issue date: 2023-03-20

Topic

An update for nss is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.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 Enterprise Linux important fix NSS update memory vulnerability

Relevant Releases Architectures

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 Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

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

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

Bugs Fixed

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

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