RHSA-2009:1190Critical

Red Hat Security Advisory: nspr and nss security and bug fix update

Published
July 31, 2009
Last Modified
June 28, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (3)

CVE-2009-2404 →CVE-2009-2408 →CVE-2009-2409 →

📋 Description

CVE-2009-2404 — nss regexp heap overflow CVE-2009-2408 — firefox/nss: doesn't handle NULL in Common Name properly CVE-2009-2409 — deprecate MD2 in SSL cert validation (Kaminsky)

🎯 Affected products64

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS EUS (v. 4.7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-devel-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-devel-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-devel-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-devel-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-devel-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS EUS (v. 4.7)
  • nspr-devel-0:4.7.4-1.el4_7.1.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS EUS (v. 4.7)
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✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

🔗 References (8)