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Critical ALAS2-2021-1722 1 CVE

Critical: nss security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Dec 1, 2021 · Updated Dec 1, 2021

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-43527: NSS (Network Security Services) up to and including 3.73 is vulnerable to a heap overflow when handling DER-encoded DSA or RSA-PSS signatures. Applications using NSS for handling signatures encoded within CMS, S/MIME, PKCS \#7, or PKCS \#12 are likely to be impacted. Applications using NSS for certificate validation or other TLS, X.509, OCSP or CRL functionality may be impacted, depending on how they configure NSS. When verifying a DER-encoded signature, NSS decodes the signature into a fixed-size buffer and passes the buffer to the underlying PKCS \#11 module. The length of the signature is not correctly checked when processing DSA and RSA-PSS signatures. DSA and RSA-PSS signatures larger than 16384 bits will overflow the buffer in VFYContextStr. The vulnerable code is located within secvfy.c:vfy_CreateContext.

Fixed packages 17

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 nspr 0:4.32.0-1.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 nspr-debuginfo 0:4.32.0-1.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 nspr-devel 0:4.32.0-1.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 nss 0:3.67.0-4.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 nss-debuginfo 0:3.67.0-4.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 nss-devel 0:3.67.0-4.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 nss-pkcs11-devel 0:3.67.0-4.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 nss-softokn 0:3.67.0-3.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 nss-softokn-debuginfo 0:3.67.0-3.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 nss-softokn-devel 0:3.67.0-3.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 nss-softokn-freebl 0:3.67.0-3.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 nss-softokn-freebl-devel 0:3.67.0-3.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 nss-sysinit 0:3.67.0-4.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 nss-tools 0:3.67.0-4.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 nss-util 0:3.67.0-1.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 nss-util-debuginfo 0:3.67.0-1.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 nss-util-devel 0:3.67.0-1.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-43527.html