RHSA-2013:1791High

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

Published
December 5, 2013
Last Modified
November 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (5)

CVE-2013-1739 →CVE-2013-1741 →CVE-2013-5605 →CVE-2013-5606 →CVE-2013-5607 →

📋 Description

CVE-2013-1739 — nss: Avoid uninitialized data read in the event of a decryption failure CVE-2013-1741 — nss: Integer truncation in certificate parsing (MFSA 2013-103) CVE-2013-5605 — nss: Null_Cipher() does not respect maxOutputLen (MFSA 2013-103) CVE-2013-5606 — nss: CERT_VerifyCert returns SECSuccess (saying certificate is good) even for bad certificates (MFSA 2013-103) CVE-2013-5607 — nspr: Avoid unsigned integer wrapping in PL_ArenaAllocate (MFSA 2013-103)

🎯 Affected products83

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • nspr-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • nspr-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • nspr-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • nspr-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • nspr-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • nspr-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • nspr-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • nspr-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • nspr-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • nspr-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • nspr-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • nspr-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • nspr-debuginfo-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • nspr-devel-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • nspr-devel-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • nspr-devel-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • nspr-devel-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
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✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

🔗 References (9)