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Red Hat 9.0: RHSA-2023:1365-01 High: nss Memory Write Risk

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Calendar Grey March 23, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A significant patch for OpenSSL has been released for CentOS, featuring essential improvements and enhanced compliance with security standards.
An update for nss is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended 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

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)
Bug Fix(es):
* In FIPS mode, nss should reject RSASSA-PSS salt lengths larger than the output size of the hash function used, or provide an indicator. (BZ#2177435)
* Need to update FIPS review comments into NSS RHEL-9. (BZ#2177876)
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 software fix important update FIPS compliance memory write PKCS 12

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 EUS (v.9.0):
Source: nss-3.79.0-17.el9_0.src.rpm
aarch64: nspr-4.34.0-17.el9_0.aarch64.rpm nspr-debuginfo-4.34.0-17.el9_0.aarch64.rpm nspr-devel-4.34.0-17.el9_0.aarch64.rpm nss-3.79.0-17.el9_0.aarch64.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.79.0-17.el9_0.aarch64.rpm nss-debugsource-3.79.0-17.el9_0.aarch64.rpm nss-devel-3.79.0-17.el9_0.aarch64.rpm nss-softokn-3.79.0-17.el9_0.aarch64.rpm nss-softokn-debuginfo-3.79.0-17.el9_0.aarch64.rpm nss-softokn-devel-3.79.0-17.el9_0.aarch64.rpm nss-softokn-freebl-3.79.0-17.el9_0.aarch64.rpm nss-softokn-freebl-debuginfo-3.79.0-17.el9_0.aarch64.rpm nss-softokn-freebl-devel-3.79.0-17.el9_0.aarch64.rpm nss-sysinit-3.79.0-17.el9_0.aarch64.rpm nss-sysinit-debuginfo-3.79.0-17.el9_0.aarch64.rpm nss-tools-3.79.0-17.el9_0.aarch64.rpm nss-tools-debuginfo-3.79.0-17.el9_0.aarch64.rpm nss-util-3.79.0-17.el9_0.aarch64.rpm nss-util-debuginfo-3.79.0-17.el9_0.aarch64.rpm nss-util-devel-3.79.0-17.el9_0.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: nspr-4.34.0-17.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm nspr-debuginfo-4.34.0-17.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm nspr-devel-4.34.0-17.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm nss-3.79.0-17.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.79.0-17.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm nss-debugsource-3.79.0-17.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm nss-devel-3.79.0-17.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm nss-softokn-3.79.0-17.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:1365-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1365
Issue date: 2023-03-21

Topic

An update for nss is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0Extended 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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat software fix important update FIPS compliance memory write PKCS 12

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

2177435 - In FIPS mode, nss should reject RSASSA-PSS salt lengths larger than the output size of the hash function used, or provide an indicator [rhel-9.0.0.z]

2177876 - Need to update FIPS review comments into NSS RHEL-9 [rhel-9.0.0.z]

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