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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="202012-21">
+ <title>Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS): Denial of service</title>
+ <synopsis>A vulnerability in NSS might allow remote attackers to cause a
+ Denial of Service condition.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">nss</product>
+ <announced>2020-12-23</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2020-12-23</revised>
+ <bug>750254</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="dev-libs/nss" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">3.58</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">3.58</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>The Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS) is a library implementing
+ security features like SSL v.2/v.3, TLS, PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS
+ #12, S/MIME and X.509 certificates.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>A flaw was found in the way Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS)
+ handled CCS (ChangeCipherSpec) messages in TLS 1.3.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="low">
+ <p>A remote attacker could send multiple crafted CSS messages in row after
+ ClientHello message to a server application linked against NSS library,
+ possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>Disable TLS 1.3 protocol.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All NSS users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-libs/nss-3.58"
+ </code>
+
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25648">CVE-2020-25648</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-12-22T23:13:35Z">whissi</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2020-12-23T19:58:04Z">whissi</metadata>
+</glsa>