Important: nss-softokn security update

Synopsis

Important: nss-softokn security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for nss-softokn is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 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.

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1591163 - CVE-2018-0495 ROHNP: Key Extraction Side Channel in Multiple Crypto Libraries
• BZ - 1774831 - CVE-2019-11745 nss: Out-of-bounds write when passing an output buffer smaller than the block size to NSC_EncryptUpdate

CVEs

• CVE-2018-0495
• CVE-2019-11745

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important