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SUSE: 2021:3934-1 Critical Security Issue: Mozilla-NSS Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey December 6, 2021
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Urgent SUSE Patch for mozilla-nss addresses serious heap corruption vulnerability impacting various OS versions.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

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). Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE 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: - SUSE MicroOS 5.1: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.1-2021-3934=1 - SUSE MicroOS 5.0: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.0-2021-3934=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15-SP1: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP1-2021-3934=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-2021-3934=1

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Topics Covered

security advisory software patch important heap overflow SUSE Linux mozilla-nss

References

#1193170

Cross- CVE-2021-43527

CVSS scores:

CVE-2021-43527 (SUSE): 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

SUSE MicroOS 5.1

SUSE MicroOS 5.0

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-SP1-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-SP1-BCL

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP1-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP1-ESPOS

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:3934-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory software patch important heap overflow SUSE Linux mozilla-nss

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