{"id":"ALSA-2021:3572","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.\n\nNetscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system facilities.\n\nThe following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: nss (3.67.0), nspr (4.32.0). (BZ#1967980)\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* nss: TLS 1.3 CCS flood remote DoS Attack (CVE-2020-25648)\n\nFor 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.\n\nBug Fix(es):\n\n* 8025 error code when creating subCAs (BZ#1977412)\n\n* NSS cannot use SQL databases created by specific versions of NSS (BZ#1978443)\n\n* Inconsistent handling of malformed CertificateRequest messages (BZ#1980050)\n\nEnhancement(s):\n\n* [IBM 8.5 FEAT] [P10] POWER10 performance enhancements for cryptography: NSS FreeBL (BZ#1978257)","modified":"2026-02-04T04:28:25.739439Z","published":"2021-09-21T07:08:30Z","related":["CVE-2020-25648"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2021-3572.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2020-25648"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"nspr","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/nspr"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.32.0-1.el8_4"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2021:3572.json"}},{"package":{"name":"nspr-devel","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/nspr-devel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.32.0-1.el8_4"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2021:3572.json"}},{"package":{"name":"nss","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/nss"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.67.0-6.el8_4"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2021:3572.json"}},{"package":{"name":"nss-devel","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/nss-devel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.67.0-6.el8_4"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2021:3572.json"}},{"package":{"name":"nss-softokn","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/nss-softokn"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.67.0-6.el8_4"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2021:3572.json"}},{"package":{"name":"nss-softokn-devel","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/nss-softokn-devel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.67.0-6.el8_4"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2021:3572.json"}},{"package":{"name":"nss-softokn-freebl","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/nss-softokn-freebl"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.67.0-6.el8_4"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2021:3572.json"}},{"package":{"name":"nss-softokn-freebl-devel","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/nss-softokn-freebl-devel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.67.0-6.el8_4"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2021:3572.json"}},{"package":{"name":"nss-sysinit","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/nss-sysinit"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.67.0-6.el8_4"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2021:3572.json"}},{"package":{"name":"nss-tools","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/nss-tools"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.67.0-6.el8_4"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2021:3572.json"}},{"package":{"name":"nss-util","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/nss-util"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.67.0-6.el8_4"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2021:3572.json"}},{"package":{"name":"nss-util-devel","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/nss-util-devel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.67.0-6.el8_4"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2021:3572.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}