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openSUSE Leap 15.3 Security Advisory: Critical Mozilla NSS Patch

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Calendar Grey December 6, 2021
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A crucial enhancement for openSUSE Leap 15.3 resolves a buffer overflow vulnerability in mozilla-nss, guaranteeing improved system protection.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for mozilla-nss fixes the following issues:

Update to version 3.68.1:

- CVE-2021-43527: Fixed a Heap overflow in NSS when verifying DER-encoded

DSA or RSA-PSS signatures (bsc#1193170).

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Topics Covered

security advisory important heap overflow openSUSE mozilla-nss

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2021-3934=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

libfreebl3-3.68.1-3.61.1

libfreebl3-debuginfo-3.68.1-3.61.1

libfreebl3-hmac-3.68.1-3.61.1

libsoftokn3-3.68.1-3.61.1

libsoftokn3-debuginfo-3.68.1-3.61.1

libsoftokn3-hmac-3.68.1-3.61.1

mozilla-nss-3.68.1-3.61.1

mozilla-nss-certs-3.68.1-3.61.1

mozilla-nss-certs-debuginfo-3.68.1-3.61.1

mozilla-nss-debuginfo-3.68.1-3.61.1

mozilla-nss-debugsource-3.68.1-3.61.1

mozilla-nss-devel-3.68.1-3.61.1

mozilla-nss-sysinit-3.68.1-3.61.1

mozilla-nss-sysinit-debuginfo-3.68.1-3.61.1

mozilla-nss-tools-3.68.1-3.61.1

mozilla-nss-tools-debuginfo-3.68.1-3.61.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (x86_64):

libfreebl3-32bit-3.68.1-3.61.1

libfreebl3-32bit-debuginfo-3.68.1-3.61.1

libfreebl3-hmac-32bit-3.68.1-3.61.1

libsoftokn3-32bit-3.68.1-3.61.1

libsoftokn3-32bit-debuginfo-3.68.1-3.61.1

libsoftokn3-hmac-32bit-3.68.1-3.61.1

mozilla-nss-32bit-3.68.1-3.61.1

mozilla-nss-32bit-debuginfo-3.68.1-3.61.1

mozilla-nss-certs-32bit-3.68.1-3.61.1

mozilla-nss-certs-32bit-debuginfo-3.68.1-3.61.1

mozilla-nss-sysinit-32bi...

Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-43527.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1193170

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:3934-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory important heap overflow openSUSE mozilla-nss

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