Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20210538
Revision Date:2021-02-16Version:638
Title:RHSA-2021:0538: nss security and bug fix update (Moderate)
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: Side channel attack on ECDSA signature generation (CVE-2020-6829)

  • nss: P-384 and P-521 implementation uses a side-channel vulnerable modular inversion function (CVE-2020-12400)

  • nss: CHACHA20-POLY1305 decryption with undersized tag leads to out-of-bounds read (CVE-2020-12403)

    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):

  • Support key wrap/unwrap with RSA-OAEP (BZ#1896431)

  • 1536bit group from RFC3526 is allowed in FIPS mode when in policy DH-MIN is set to be lower than 1536 (BZ#1896432)

  • when NSS_SDB_USE_CACHE not set, after curl access https, dentry increase but never released - consider alternative algorithm for benchmarking ACCESS call in sdb_measureAccess [rhel-8] (BZ#1896933)

  • Policy should allow overriding library defaults (BZ#1898702)

  • KDF-self-tests-induced changes for nss in RHEL 8.4 (BZ#1898953)

  • nss: non-blocksize requests to IKEv1 KDF returns bogus output (BZ#1904408)
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2020-12400
    CVE-2020-12401
    CVE-2020-12403
    CVE-2020-6829
    RHSA-2021:0538
    Platform(s):Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
    Product(s):
    Definition Synopsis
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is installed
  • OR Red Hat CoreOS 4 is installed
  • AND
  • nss is earlier than 0:3.53.1-17.el8_3
  • AND nss is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • nss-devel is earlier than 0:3.53.1-17.el8_3
  • AND nss-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • nss-softokn is earlier than 0:3.53.1-17.el8_3
  • AND nss-softokn is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • nss-softokn-devel is earlier than 0:3.53.1-17.el8_3
  • AND nss-softokn-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • nss-softokn-freebl is earlier than 0:3.53.1-17.el8_3
  • AND nss-softokn-freebl is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • nss-softokn-freebl-devel is earlier than 0:3.53.1-17.el8_3
  • AND nss-softokn-freebl-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • nss-sysinit is earlier than 0:3.53.1-17.el8_3
  • AND nss-sysinit is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • nss-tools is earlier than 0:3.53.1-17.el8_3
  • AND nss-tools is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • nss-util is earlier than 0:3.53.1-17.el8_3
  • AND nss-util is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • nss-util-devel is earlier than 0:3.53.1-17.el8_3
  • AND nss-util-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
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