(RHSA-2021:0876) Moderate: nss and nss-softokn security update

Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support the cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications.

The nss-softokn package provides the Network Security Services Softoken Cryptographic Module.

Security Fix(es):

• nss: Use-after-free in sftk_FreeSession due to improper refcounting (CVE-2019-11756)

• nss: Check length of inputs for cryptographic primitives (CVE-2019-17006)

• nss: Handling of Netscape Certificate Sequences in CERT_DecodeCertPackage() may crash with a NULL deref leading to DoS (CVE-2019-17007)

• nss: CHACHA20-POLY1305 decryption with undersized tag leads to out-of-bounds read (CVE-2020-12403)

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.