vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-47695a9c-5377-11ec-8be6-d4c9ef517024 (CVE-2021-43527): NSS -- Memory corruption

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 2, 2021
Added
Nov 4, 2022
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

The Mozilla project reports: Memory corruption in NSS via DER-encoded DSA and RSA-PSS signatures (Critical) 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.

Solution

freebsd-upgrade-package-nss
Title
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