RLSA-2021:3572

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    RLSA-2021:3572

    Published: 21 Sept 2021Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2020-25648

    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.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2021:3572, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1887319, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1967980, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1976250, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1976253, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1976255, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1976257, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1976258, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1977412, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1978443, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1996774

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: nspr

    Purl: pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/nspr?distro=rocky-linux-8-4-legacy&epoch=0

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0:4.32.0-1.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
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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