Issued:
2021-12-06
Updated:
2021-12-06

RHSA-2021:4933 - Critical: nss security update

Synopsis

Critical: nss security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Critical

Topic

An update for nss is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Telco Extended Update Support, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. 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: Memory corruption in decodeECorDsaSignature with DSA signatures (and RSA-PSS) (CVE-2021-43527)

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.

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 x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions7.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions7.6ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS7.6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS7.6x86_64

Updated Packages

  • nss-pkcs11-devel-3.36.0-10.2.el7_6.ppc64le.rpm
  • nss-debuginfo-3.36.0-10.2.el7_6.ppc64le.rpm
  • nss-3.36.0-10.2.el7_6.i686.rpm
  • nss-3.36.0-10.2.el7_6.ppc64le.rpm
  • nss-sysinit-3.36.0-10.2.el7_6.x86_64.rpm
  • nss-debuginfo-3.36.0-10.2.el7_6.i686.rpm
  • nss-3.36.0-10.2.el7_6.x86_64.rpm
  • nss-sysinit-3.36.0-10.2.el7_6.ppc64le.rpm
  • nss-devel-3.36.0-10.2.el7_6.ppc64le.rpm
  • nss-pkcs11-devel-3.36.0-10.2.el7_6.i686.rpm
  • nss-tools-3.36.0-10.2.el7_6.ppc64le.rpm
  • nss-debuginfo-3.36.0-10.2.el7_6.x86_64.rpm
  • nss-tools-3.36.0-10.2.el7_6.x86_64.rpm
  • nss-devel-3.36.0-10.2.el7_6.i686.rpm
  • nss-devel-3.36.0-10.2.el7_6.x86_64.rpm
  • nss-pkcs11-devel-3.36.0-10.2.el7_6.x86_64.rpm
  • nss-3.36.0-10.2.el7_6.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information