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USN-5168-3: NSS vulnerability

Severity

High

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 16.04

Description

USN-5168-1 fixed a vulnerability in NSS. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Tavis Ormandy discovered that NSS incorrectly handled verifying DSA/RSA-PSS signatures. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause NSS to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2021-43527

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is high unless otherwise noted.

• Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes
  • All versions prior to 2.0.0

• Operations Manager
  • 2.9.x versions prior to 2.9.24
  • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.23

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigation below. On the Tanzu Network product page for each release, check the Depends On section and/or Release Notes for this information. Releases that have fixed this issue include:

• Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes
  • 2.0.0

• Operations Manager
  • 2.9.24
  • 2.10.23

References

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-43527
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5168-3

History

2022-01-25: Initial vulnerability report published.