RLSA-2021:0538

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RLSA-2021:0538

Summary: Moderate: nss security and bug fix 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. 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 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 [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)

References: https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2021:0538, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1826187, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1853983, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1868931, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1896431, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1896432, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1896933, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1898953