ALSA-2021:3572

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    ALSA-2021:3572

    Published: 21 Sept 2021Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Moderate: nss and nspr security, bug fix, and enhancement update

    Details: Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support the cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. 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: https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2021-3572.html, https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2020-25648

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: nspr

    Purl: pkg:rpm/almalinux/nspr

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.32.0-1.el8_4

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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