INFBA-2024:6680: NSS security update

Information about definition

Identificator: INFBA-2024:6680

Type: bugfix

Release date: 2025-03-05 16:49:59 UTC

Information about package

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

Vulnerabilities description

  • CVE-2024-6602

    A mismatch between allocator and deallocator could have lead to memory corruption. Bug Fixes and Enhancements * Rebase NSS to 3.101 for Firefox. * nss: Mozilla: Memory corruption in NSS. * nss: Mozilla: Memory corruption in NSS [rhel-8.10.z]. * In FIPS mode, NSS DH_NewKey() fails because RNG_RNGInit() was never called. * nss: PK11_Encrypt using CKM_CHACHA20 can reveal plaintext on Intel Sandy Bridge machines [rhel-8.10.z].

Severity level

CVE Score CVSS 2.0 Score CVSS 3.x Score CVSS 4.0
NIST — CVE-2024-6602
no information 6.1 no information
Critical, important, moderate, low

Updated packages