RHSA-2020:1461 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: nss-softokn security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · April 15, 2020

Updated · October 14, 2026

Topic

An update for nss-softokn is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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

The nss-softokn package provides the Network Security Services Softoken Cryptographic Module.

Security Fix(es):

  • nss: Out-of-bounds write when passing an output buffer smaller than the block size to NSC_EncryptUpdate (CVE-2019-11745)

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

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2020:1461 — Red Hat Security Advisory: nss-softokn security update | PulseLinux