A nss and nspr security, bug fix, and enhancement update has been released for AlmaLinux.

ALSA-2021:3572 Moderate: nss and nspr security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type:
security

Severity:
moderate

Release date:
2021-09-23

Description
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)

References:
CVE-2020-25648

Updates packages:
nspr-4.32.0-1.el8_4.i686.rpm
nspr-4.32.0-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
nspr-devel-4.32.0-1.el8_4.i686.rpm
nspr-devel-4.32.0-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
nss-3.67.0-6.el8_4.i686.rpm
nss-3.67.0-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
nss-devel-3.67.0-6.el8_4.i686.rpm
nss-devel-3.67.0-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
nss-softokn-3.67.0-6.el8_4.i686.rpm
nss-softokn-3.67.0-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
nss-softokn-devel-3.67.0-6.el8_4.i686.rpm
nss-softokn-devel-3.67.0-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
nss-softokn-freebl-3.67.0-6.el8_4.i686.rpm
nss-softokn-freebl-3.67.0-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
nss-softokn-freebl-devel-3.67.0-6.el8_4.i686.rpm
nss-softokn-freebl-devel-3.67.0-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
nss-sysinit-3.67.0-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
nss-tools-3.67.0-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
nss-util-3.67.0-6.el8_4.i686.rpm
nss-util-3.67.0-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
nss-util-devel-3.67.0-6.el8_4.i686.rpm
nss-util-devel-3.67.0-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm

Notes:
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  ALSA-2021:3572 Moderate: nss and nspr security, bug fix, and enhancement update