RHSA-2009:1207Critical

Red Hat Security Advisory: nspr and nss security update

Published
August 12, 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 products57

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nspr-0:4.7.4-1.el5_2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nspr-0:4.7.4-1.el5_2.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nspr-0:4.7.4-1.el5_2.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nspr-0:4.7.4-1.el5_2.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nspr-0:4.7.4-1.el5_2.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nspr-0:4.7.4-1.el5_2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nspr-0:4.7.4-1.el5_2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nspr-0:4.7.4-1.el5_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.7.4-1.el5_2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.7.4-1.el5_2.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.7.4-1.el5_2.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.7.4-1.el5_2.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.7.4-1.el5_2.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.7.4-1.el5_2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.7.4-1.el5_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nspr-devel-0:4.7.4-1.el5_2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nspr-devel-0:4.7.4-1.el5_2.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nspr-devel-0:4.7.4-1.el5_2.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nspr-devel-0:4.7.4-1.el5_2.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nspr-devel-0:4.7.4-1.el5_2.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nspr-devel-0:4.7.4-1.el5_2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nspr-devel-0:4.7.4-1.el5_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nss-0:3.12.3.99.3-1.el5_2.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nss-0:3.12.3.99.3-1.el5_2.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nss-0:3.12.3.99.3-1.el5_2.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nss-0:3.12.3.99.3-1.el5_2.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nss-0:3.12.3.99.3-1.el5_2.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nss-0:3.12.3.99.3-1.el5_2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
  • nss-0:3.12.3.99.3-1.el5_2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2 server)
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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 (6)