Critical: nss

Issue Overview:

NSS (Network Security Services) up to and including 3.73 is vulnerable to a heap overflow when handling DER-encoded DSA or RSA-PSS signatures. Applications using NSS for handling signatures encoded within CMS, S/MIME, PKCS \#7, or PKCS \#12 are likely to be impacted. Applications using NSS for certificate validation or other TLS, X.509, OCSP or CRL functionality may be impacted, depending on how they configure NSS.
When verifying a DER-encoded signature, NSS decodes the signature into a fixed-size buffer and passes the buffer to the underlying PKCS \#11 module. The length of the signature is not correctly checked when processing DSA and RSA-PSS signatures. DSA and RSA-PSS signatures larger than 16384 bits will overflow the buffer in VFYContextStr. The vulnerable code is located within secvfy.c:vfy_CreateContext. (CVE-2021-43527)

Affected Packages:

nss

Issue Correction:
Run yum update nss to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    nss-sysinit-3.53.1-7.87.amzn1.i686  
    nss-devel-3.53.1-7.87.amzn1.i686  
    nss-pkcs11-devel-3.53.1-7.87.amzn1.i686  
    nss-tools-3.53.1-7.87.amzn1.i686  
    nss-debuginfo-3.53.1-7.87.amzn1.i686  
    nss-3.53.1-7.87.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    nss-3.53.1-7.87.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    nss-pkcs11-devel-3.53.1-7.87.amzn1.x86_64  
    nss-debuginfo-3.53.1-7.87.amzn1.x86_64  
    nss-tools-3.53.1-7.87.amzn1.x86_64  
    nss-devel-3.53.1-7.87.amzn1.x86_64  
    nss-sysinit-3.53.1-7.87.amzn1.x86_64  
    nss-3.53.1-7.87.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2021-43527

Mitre: CVE-2021-43527