RLSA-2021:0538

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 NSSSDBUSECACHE not set, after curl access https, dentry increase but never released - consider alternative algorithm for benchmarking ACCESS call in sdbmeasureAccess [Rocky Linux-8] (BZ#1896933)

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

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

• nss: non-blocksize requests to IKEv1 KDF returns bogus output (BZ#1904408)