NSS (Network Security Services) versions prior to 3.73 or 3.68.1 ESR are 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. *Note: This vulnerability does NOT impact Mozilla Firefox.* However, email clients and PDF viewers that use NSS for signature verification, such as Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Evolution and Evince are believed to be impacted. This vulnerability affects NSS < 3.73 and NSS < 3.68.1.
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DLA-2836-1 | nss security update |
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DLA-2836-2 | nss regression update |
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DSA-5016-1 | nss security update |
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EUVD-2021-30456 | NSS (Network Security Services) versions prior to 3.73 or 3.68.1 ESR are 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. *Note: This vulnerability does NOT impact Mozilla Firefox.* However, email clients and PDF viewers that use NSS for signature verification, such as Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Evolution and Evince are believed to be impacted. This vulnerability affects NSS < 3.73 and NSS < 3.68.1. |
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USN-5168-1 | NSS vulnerability |
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USN-5168-2 | Thunderbird vulnerability |
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USN-5168-3 | NSS vulnerability |
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USN-5168-4 | NSS regression |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mozilla
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-04T03:55:29.297Z
Reserved: 2021-11-08T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-43527

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Status : Modified
Published: 2021-12-08T22:15:09.163
Modified: 2024-11-21T06:29:21.467
Link: CVE-2021-43527


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