RHSA-2021:0538: Moderate: nss security and bug fix update

First published: Tue Feb 16 2021(Updated: )

Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support the cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications.<br>Security Fix(es):<br><li> nss: Side channel attack on ECDSA signature generation (CVE-2020-6829)</li> <li> nss: P-384 and P-521 implementation uses a side-channel vulnerable modular inversion function (CVE-2020-12400)</li> <li> nss: CHACHA20-POLY1305 decryption with undersized tag leads to out-of-bounds read (CVE-2020-12403)</li> 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.<br>Bug Fix(es):<br><li> Support key wrap/unwrap with RSA-OAEP (BZ#1896431)</li> <li> 1536bit group from RFC3526 is allowed in FIPS mode when in policy DH-MIN is set to be lower than 1536 (BZ#1896432)</li> <li> 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)</li> <li> Policy should allow overriding library defaults (BZ#1898702)</li> <li> KDF-self-tests-induced changes for nss in RHEL 8.4 (BZ#1898953)</li> <li> nss: non-blocksize requests to IKEv1 KDF returns bogus output (BZ#1904408)</li>

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