RHSA-2021:3572 — Security Advisory

An update for nss and nspr is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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.

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

Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system facilities.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: nss (3.67.0), nspr (4.32.0). (BZ#1967980)

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):

• 8025 error code when creating subCAs (BZ#1977412)

• NSS cannot use SQL databases created by specific versions of NSS (BZ#1978443)

• Inconsistent handling of malformed CertificateRequest messages (BZ#1980050)

Enhancement(s):

• [IBM 8.5 FEAT] [P10] POWER10 performance enhancements for cryptography: NSS FreeBL (BZ#1978257)