Security Update for nss and nspr in Scientific Linux SL5.x SLSA-2013:1135-1

Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 19:03:49 +0000
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Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Pat Riehecky 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: nss and nspr on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis: Moderate: nss and nspr security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2013:1135-1
Issue Date: 2013-08-05
CVE Numbers: CVE-2013-1620
 CVE-2013-0791
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It was discovered that NSS leaked timing information when decrypting
TLS/SSL and DTLS protocol encrypted records when CBC-mode cipher suites
were used. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to retrieve
plain text from the encrypted packets by using a TLS/SSL or DTLS server as
a padding oracle. (CVE-2013-1620)

An out-of-bounds memory read flaw was found in the way NSS decoded certain
certificates. If an application using NSS decoded a malformed certificate,
it could cause the application to crash. (CVE-2013-0791)

This update also fixes the following bugs:

* A defect in the FreeBL library implementation of the Diffie-Hellman (DH)
protocol previously caused Openswan to drop connections.

* A memory leak in the nssutil_ReadSecmodDB() function has been fixed.

In addition, the nss package has been upgraded to upstream version 3.14.3,
and the nspr package has been upgraded to upstream version 4.9.5. These
updates provide a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous
versions.

Note that while upstream NSS version 3.14 prevents the use of certificates
that have an MD5 signature, this erratum includes a patch that allows such
certificates by default. To prevent the use of certificates that have an
MD5 signature, set the "NSS_HASH_ALG_SUPPORT" environment variable to
"-MD5".

After installing this update, applications using NSS or NSPR must be
restarted for this update to take effect.
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SL5
 x86_64
 nspr-4.9.5-1.el5_9.i386.rpm
 nspr-4.9.5-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
 nspr-debuginfo-4.9.5-1.el5_9.i386.rpm
 nspr-debuginfo-4.9.5-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
 nss-3.14.3-6.el5_9.i386.rpm
 nss-3.14.3-6.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
 nss-debuginfo-3.14.3-6.el5_9.i386.rpm
 nss-debuginfo-3.14.3-6.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
 nss-tools-3.14.3-6.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
 nspr-devel-4.9.5-1.el5_9.i386.rpm
 nspr-devel-4.9.5-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
 nss-devel-3.14.3-6.el5_9.i386.rpm
 nss-devel-3.14.3-6.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
 nss-pkcs11-devel-3.14.3-6.el5_9.i386.rpm
 nss-pkcs11-devel-3.14.3-6.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
 i386
 nspr-4.9.5-1.el5_9.i386.rpm
 nspr-debuginfo-4.9.5-1.el5_9.i386.rpm
 nss-3.14.3-6.el5_9.i386.rpm
 nss-debuginfo-3.14.3-6.el5_9.i386.rpm
 nss-tools-3.14.3-6.el5_9.i386.rpm
 nspr-devel-4.9.5-1.el5_9.i386.rpm
 nss-devel-3.14.3-6.el5_9.i386.rpm
 nss-pkcs11-devel-3.14.3-6.el5_9.i386.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team