Issued:
2021-04-27
Updated:
2021-04-27

RHSA-2021:1384 - Moderate: nss security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Moderate: nss security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for nss is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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

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

Security Fix(es):

  • nss: TLS 1.3 CCS flood remote DoS Attack (CVE-2020-25648)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

  • FTBFS: Paypal Cert expired (BZ#1883973)

  • FTBFS: IKE CLASS_1563 fails gtest (BZ#1884793)

  • Cannot compile code with nss headers and -Werror=strict-prototypes (BZ#1885321)

  • CA HSM ncipher token disabled after RHEL-7.9 update (BZ#1932193)

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

After installing this update, applications using NSS (for example, Firefox) must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • nss-pkcs11-devel-3.53.1-7.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
  • nss-sysinit-3.53.1-7.el7_9.s390x.rpm
  • nss-devel-3.53.1-7.el7_9.ppc.rpm
  • nss-3.53.1-7.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm
  • nss-pkcs11-devel-3.53.1-7.el7_9.ppc.rpm
  • nss-tools-3.53.1-7.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm
  • nss-devel-3.53.1-7.el7_9.s390x.rpm
  • nss-debuginfo-3.53.1-7.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm
  • nss-sysinit-3.53.1-7.el7_9.ppc64.rpm
  • nss-3.53.1-7.el7_9.ppc64.rpm
  • nss-pkcs11-devel-3.53.1-7.el7_9.s390x.rpm
  • nss-3.53.1-7.el7_9.src.rpm
  • nss-pkcs11-devel-3.53.1-7.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm
  • nss-debuginfo-3.53.1-7.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
  • nss-3.53.1-7.el7_9.s390x.rpm
  • nss-3.53.1-7.el7_9.s390.rpm
  • nss-tools-3.53.1-7.el7_9.ppc64.rpm
  • nss-tools-3.53.1-7.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
  • nss-devel-3.53.1-7.el7_9.i686.rpm
  • nss-devel-3.53.1-7.el7_9.ppc64.rpm
  • nss-3.53.1-7.el7_9.i686.rpm
  • nss-devel-3.53.1-7.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
  • nss-pkcs11-devel-3.53.1-7.el7_9.i686.rpm
  • nss-pkcs11-devel-3.53.1-7.el7_9.ppc64.rpm
  • nss-sysinit-3.53.1-7.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
  • nss-3.53.1-7.el7_9.ppc.rpm
  • nss-debuginfo-3.53.1-7.el7_9.s390x.rpm
  • nss-debuginfo-3.53.1-7.el7_9.ppc64.rpm
  • nss-debuginfo-3.53.1-7.el7_9.i686.rpm
  • nss-pkcs11-devel-3.53.1-7.el7_9.s390.rpm
  • nss-devel-3.53.1-7.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm
  • nss-sysinit-3.53.1-7.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm
  • nss-tools-3.53.1-7.el7_9.s390x.rpm
  • nss-devel-3.53.1-7.el7_9.s390.rpm
  • nss-debuginfo-3.53.1-7.el7_9.ppc.rpm
  • nss-debuginfo-3.53.1-7.el7_9.s390.rpm
  • nss-3.53.1-7.el7_9.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information