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Red Hat: RHSA-2023-1366-01 Important: NSS Arbitrary Memory Write Fix

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Calendar Grey March 23, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Canonical has announced a critical security patch for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, resolving a significant buffer overflow vulnerability.
An update for nss is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle 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)
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 Enterprise Linux important security impact NSS update arbitrary memory write

References

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

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 ELS):
Source: nss-3.44.0-13.el6_10.src.rpm
i386: nss-3.44.0-13.el6_10.i686.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.44.0-13.el6_10.i686.rpm nss-devel-3.44.0-13.el6_10.i686.rpm nss-sysinit-3.44.0-13.el6_10.i686.rpm nss-tools-3.44.0-13.el6_10.i686.rpm
s390x: nss-3.44.0-13.el6_10.s390.rpm nss-3.44.0-13.el6_10.s390x.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.44.0-13.el6_10.s390.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.44.0-13.el6_10.s390x.rpm nss-devel-3.44.0-13.el6_10.s390.rpm nss-devel-3.44.0-13.el6_10.s390x.rpm nss-sysinit-3.44.0-13.el6_10.s390x.rpm nss-tools-3.44.0-13.el6_10.s390x.rpm
x86_64: nss-3.44.0-13.el6_10.i686.rpm nss-3.44.0-13.el6_10.x86_64.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.44.0-13.el6_10.i686.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.44.0-13.el6_10.x86_64.rpm nss-devel-3.44.0-13.el6_10.i686.rpm nss-devel-3.44.0-13.el6_10.x86_64.rpm nss-sysinit-3.44.0-13.el6_10.x86_64.rpm nss-tools-3.44.0-13.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6 ELS):
i386: nss-debuginfo-3.44.0-13.el6_10.i686.rpm nss-pkcs11-devel-3.44.0-13.el6_10.i686.rpm
s390x: nss-debuginfo-3.44.0-13.el6_10.s390.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.44.0-13.el6_10.s390x.rpm nss-pkcs11-devel-3.44.0-13.el6_10.s390.rpm nss-pkcs11-devel-3.44.0-13.el6_10.s390x.rpm
x86_64: nss-debuginfo-3.44.0-13.el6_10.i686.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.44.0-13.el6_10.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:1366-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1366
Issue date: 2023-03-21

Topic

An update for nss is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ExtendedLifecycle 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux important security impact NSS update arbitrary memory write

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 ELS) - i386, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6 ELS) - i386, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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