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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 RHSA-2023-1369-01 Important: NSS Update

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Calendar Grey March 23, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial security bulletin for Red Hat Enterprise Linux features patch specifics for nss tackling severe memory vulnerabilities.
An update for nss is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 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)
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

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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.8.6):
Source: nss-3.79.0-11.el8_6.src.rpm
aarch64: nss-3.79.0-11.el8_6.aarch64.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.79.0-11.el8_6.aarch64.rpm nss-debugsource-3.79.0-11.el8_6.aarch64.rpm nss-devel-3.79.0-11.el8_6.aarch64.rpm nss-softokn-3.79.0-11.el8_6.aarch64.rpm nss-softokn-debuginfo-3.79.0-11.el8_6.aarch64.rpm nss-softokn-devel-3.79.0-11.el8_6.aarch64.rpm nss-softokn-freebl-3.79.0-11.el8_6.aarch64.rpm nss-softokn-freebl-debuginfo-3.79.0-11.el8_6.aarch64.rpm nss-softokn-freebl-devel-3.79.0-11.el8_6.aarch64.rpm nss-sysinit-3.79.0-11.el8_6.aarch64.rpm nss-sysinit-debuginfo-3.79.0-11.el8_6.aarch64.rpm nss-tools-3.79.0-11.el8_6.aarch64.rpm nss-tools-debuginfo-3.79.0-11.el8_6.aarch64.rpm nss-util-3.79.0-11.el8_6.aarch64.rpm nss-util-debuginfo-3.79.0-11.el8_6.aarch64.rpm nss-util-devel-3.79.0-11.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: nss-3.79.0-11.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm nss-debuginfo-3.79.0-11.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm nss-debugsource-3.79.0-11.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm nss-devel-3.79.0-11.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm nss-softokn-3.79.0-11.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm nss-softokn-debuginfo-3.79.0-11.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm nss-softokn-devel-3.79.0-11.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm nss-softokn-freebl-3.79.0-11.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm nss-softokn-freebl-debuginfo-3.79.0-11.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
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Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:1369-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1369
Issue date: 2023-03-21

Topic

An update for nss is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6Extended 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 Red Hat security impact important advisory nss update arbitrary memory write

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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