RHSA-2019:2237 — Security Advisory

An update for nss, nss-softokn, nss-util, and nspr is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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.

Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support the cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications.

Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system facilities.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: nss (3.44.0), nss-softokn (3.44.0), nss-util (3.44.0), nspr (4.21.0). (BZ#1645231, BZ#1692269, BZ#1692271, BZ#1692274)

Security Fix(es):

• ROHNP: Key Extraction Side Channel in Multiple Crypto Libraries (CVE-2018-0495)

• nss: Cache side-channel variant of the Bleichenbacher attack (CVE-2018-12404)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.