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SUSE: 2020:1850-1 Moderate: mozilla-nss Side Channel Attack Fix

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Calendar Grey July 6, 2020
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Patch addresses vulnerabilities in mozilla-nss, mitigating the risk of a possible side channel exploit. More information within.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available

Summary

This update for mozilla-nss fixes the following issues: mozilla-nss was updated to version 3.53.1 - CVE-2020-12402: Fixed a potential side channel attack during RSA key generation (bsc#1173032) - Fixed various FIPS issues in libfreebl3 which were causing segfaults in the test suite of chrony (bsc#1168669). Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-2020-1850=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-2020-1850=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15-SP2:

References

#1168669 #1173032

Cross- CVE-2020-12402

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12402.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1168669

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1173032

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:1850-1
Rating: moderate

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