Issued:
2018-10-09
Updated:
2018-10-09

RHSA-2018:2898 - Moderate: nss security update

Synopsis

Moderate: nss security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for nss is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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: ServerHello.random is all zeros when handling a v2-compatible ClientHello (CVE-2018-12384)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue.

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.

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Retired Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • nss-sysinit-3.36.0-9.el6_10.i686.rpm
  • nss-3.36.0-9.el6_10.src.rpm
  • nss-tools-3.36.0-9.el6_10.i686.rpm
  • nss-debuginfo-3.36.0-9.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
  • nss-devel-3.36.0-9.el6_10.ppc.rpm
  • nss-sysinit-3.36.0-9.el6_10.ppc64.rpm
  • nss-devel-3.36.0-9.el6_10.i686.rpm
  • nss-devel-3.36.0-9.el6_10.ppc64.rpm
  • nss-pkcs11-devel-3.36.0-9.el6_10.ppc.rpm
  • nss-pkcs11-devel-3.36.0-9.el6_10.s390.rpm
  • nss-debuginfo-3.36.0-9.el6_10.ppc64.rpm
  • nss-3.36.0-9.el6_10.ppc.rpm
  • nss-tools-3.36.0-9.el6_10.ppc64.rpm
  • nss-debuginfo-3.36.0-9.el6_10.ppc.rpm
  • nss-debuginfo-3.36.0-9.el6_10.s390.rpm
  • nss-3.36.0-9.el6_10.i686.rpm
  • nss-3.36.0-9.el6_10.ppc64.rpm
  • nss-pkcs11-devel-3.36.0-9.el6_10.i686.rpm
  • nss-devel-3.36.0-9.el6_10.s390.rpm
  • nss-pkcs11-devel-3.36.0-9.el6_10.s390x.rpm
  • nss-sysinit-3.36.0-9.el6_10.s390x.rpm
  • nss-tools-3.36.0-9.el6_10.s390x.rpm
  • nss-debuginfo-3.36.0-9.el6_10.i686.rpm
  • nss-3.36.0-9.el6_10.s390x.rpm
  • nss-sysinit-3.36.0-9.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
  • nss-debuginfo-3.36.0-9.el6_10.s390x.rpm
  • nss-tools-3.36.0-9.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
  • nss-3.36.0-9.el6_10.s390.rpm
  • nss-3.36.0-9.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
  • nss-devel-3.36.0-9.el6_10.s390x.rpm
  • nss-pkcs11-devel-3.36.0-9.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
  • nss-devel-3.36.0-9.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
  • nss-pkcs11-devel-3.36.0-9.el6_10.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information