Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-43527 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2021-51/
- https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_73_RTM/
- https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_68_1_RTM/
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1737470
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211229-0002/
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-594438.pdf
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- https://www.starwindsoftware.com/security/sw-20220802-0001/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202212-05