The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2600-1 advisory.

    - FIPS: Added more safe memset (bsc#1222811).
    - FIPS: Adjusted AES GCM restrictions (bsc#1222830).
    - FIPS: Adjusted approved ciphers (bsc#1222813, bsc#1222814, bsc#1222821,       bsc#1222822, bsc#1224118, bsc#1222807, bsc#1222828, bsc#1222834,       bsc#1222804, bsc#1222826, bsc#1222833, bsc#1224113, bsc#1224115,       bsc#1224116).

    Update to NSS 3.101.1:

    * GLOBALTRUST 2020: Set Distrust After for TLS and S/MIME.

    update to NSS 3.101:

    * add diagnostic assertions for SFTKObject refcount.
    * freeing the slot in DeleteCertAndKey if authentication failed
    * fix formatting issues.
    * Add Firmaprofesional CA Root-A Web to NSS.
    * remove invalid acvp fuzz test vectors.
    * pad short P-384 and P-521 signatures gtests.
    * remove unused FreeBL ECC code.
    * pad short P-384 and P-521 signatures.
    * be less strict about ECDSA private key length.
    * Integrate HACL* P-521.
    * Integrate HACL* P-384.
    * memory leak in create_objects_from_handles.
    * ensure all input is consumed in a few places in mozilla::pkix
    * SMIME/CMS and PKCS #12 do not integrate with modern NSS policy
    * clean up escape handling
    * Use lib::pkix as default validator instead of the old-one
    * Need to add high level support for PQ signing.
    * Certificate Compression: changing the allocation/freeing of buffer + Improving the documentation
    * SMIME/CMS and PKCS #12 do not integrate with modern NSS policy
    * Allow for non-full length ecdsa signature when using softoken
    * Modification of .taskcluster.yml due to mozlint indent defects
    * Implement support for PBMAC1 in PKCS#12
    * disable VLA warnings for fuzz builds.
    * remove redundant AllocItem implementation.
    * add PK11_ReadDistrustAfterAttribute.
    * - Clang-formatting of SEC_GetMgfTypeByOidTag update
    * Set SEC_ERROR_LIBRARY_FAILURE on self-test failure
    * sftk_getParameters(): Fix fallback to default variable after error with configfile.
    * Switch to the mozillareleases/image_builder image

    - switch from ec_field_GFp to ec_field_plain

    Update to NSS 3.100:

    * merge pk11_kyberSlotList into pk11_ecSlotList for faster Xyber operations.
    * remove ckcapi.
    * avoid a potential PK11GenericObject memory leak.
    * Remove incomplete ESDH code.
    * Decrypt RSA OAEP encrypted messages.
    * Fix certutil CRLDP URI code.
    * Don't set CKA_DERIVE for CKK_EC_EDWARDS private keys.
    * Add ability to encrypt and decrypt CMS messages using ECDH.
    * Correct Templates for key agreement in smime/cmsasn.c.
    * Moving the decodedCert allocation to NSS.
    * Allow developers to speed up repeated local execution of NSS tests that depend on certificates.

    Update to NSS 3.99:

    * Removing check for message len in ed25519 (bmo#1325335)
    * add ed25519 to SECU_ecName2params. (bmo#1884276)
    * add EdDSA wycheproof tests. (bmo#1325335)
    * nss/lib layer code for EDDSA. (bmo#1325335)
    * Adding EdDSA implementation. (bmo#1325335)
    * Exporting Certificate Compression types (bmo#1881027)
    * Updating ACVP docker to rust 1.74 (bmo#1880857)
    * Updating HACL* to 0f136f28935822579c244f287e1d2a1908a7e552 (bmo#1325335)
    * Add NSS_CMSRecipient_IsSupported. (bmo#1877730)

    Update to NSS 3.98:

    * (CVE-2023-5388) Timing attack against RSA decryption in TLS
    * Certificate Compression: enabling the check that the compression was advertised
    * Move Windows workers to nss-1/b-win2022-alpha
    * Remove Email trust bit from OISTE WISeKey Global Root GC CA
    * Replace `distutils.spawn.find_executable` with `shutil.which` within `mach` in `nss`
    * Certificate Compression: Updating nss_bogo_shim to support Certificate compression
    * TLS Certificate Compression (RFC 8879) Implementation
    * Add valgrind annotations to freebl kyber operations for constant-time execution tests
    * Set nssckbi version number to 2.66
    * Add Telekom Security roots
    * Add D-Trust 2022 S/MIME roots
    * Remove expired Security Communication RootCA1 root
    * move keys to a slot that supports concatenation in PK11_ConcatSymKeys
    * remove unmaintained tls-interop tests
    * bogo: add support for the -ipv6 and -shim-id shim flags
    * bogo: add support for the -curves shim flag and update Kyber expectations
    * bogo: adjust expectation for a key usage bit test
    * mozpkix: add option to ignore invalid subject alternative names
    * Fix selfserv not stripping `publicname:` from -X value
    * take ownership of ecckilla shims
    * add valgrind annotations to freebl/ec.c
    * PR_INADDR_ANY needs PR_htonl before assignment to inet.ip
    * Update zlib to 1.3.1

    Update to NSS 3.97:

    * make Xyber768d00 opt-in by policy
    * add libssl support for xyber768d00
    * add PK11_ConcatSymKeys
    * add Kyber and a PKCS#11 KEM interface to softoken
    * add a FreeBL API for Kyber
    * part 2: vendor github.com/pq-crystals/kyber/commit/e0d1c6ff
    * part 1: add a script for vendoring kyber from pq-crystals repo
    * Removing the calls to RSA Blind from loader.*
    * fix worker type for level3 mac tasks
    * RSA Blind implementation
    * Remove DSA selftests
    * read KWP testvectors from JSON
    * Backed out changeset dcb174139e4f
    * Fix CKM_PBE_SHA1_DES2_EDE_CBC derivation
    * Wrap CC shell commands in gyp expansions

    Update to NSS 3.96.1:

    * Use pypi dependencies for MacOS worker in ./build_gyp.sh
    * p7sign: add -a hash and -u certusage (also p7verify cleanups)
    * add a defensive check for large ssl_DefSend return values
    * Add dependency to the taskcluster script for Darwin
    * Upgrade version of the MacOS worker for the CI

    Update to NSS 3.95:

    * Bump builtins version number.
    * Remove Email trust bit from Autoridad de Certificacion Firmaprofesional CIF A62634068 root cert.
    * Remove 4 DigiCert (Symantec/Verisign) Root Certificates
    * Remove 3 TrustCor Root Certificates from NSS.
    * Remove Camerfirma root certificates from NSS.
    * Remove old Autoridad de Certificacion Firmaprofesional Certificate.
    * Add four Commscope root certificates to NSS.
    * Add TrustAsia Global Root CA G3 and G4 root certificates.
    * Include P-384 and P-521 Scalar Validation from HACL*
    * Include P-256 Scalar Validation from HACL*.
    * After the HACL 256 ECC patch, NSS incorrectly encodes 256 ECC without DER wrapping at the softoken level
    * Add means to provide library parameters to C_Initialize
    * add OSXSAVE and XCR0 tests to AVX2 detection.
    * Typo in ssl3_AppendHandshakeNumber
    * Introducing input check of ssl3_AppendHandshakeNumber
    * Fix Invalid casts in instance.c

    Update to NSS 3.94:

    * Updated code and commit ID for HACL*
    * update ACVP fuzzed test vector: refuzzed with current NSS
    * Softoken C_ calls should use system FIPS setting to select NSC_ or FC_ variants
    * NSS needs a database tool that can dump the low level representation of the database
    * declare string literals using char in pkixnames_tests.cpp
    * avoid implicit conversion for ByteString
    * update rust version for acvp docker
    * Moving the init function of the mpi_ints before clean-up in ec.c
    * P-256 ECDH and ECDSA from HACL*
    * Add ACVP test vectors to the repository
    * Stop relying on std::basic_string<uint8_t>
    * Transpose the PPC_ABI check from Makefile to gyp

    Update to NSS 3.93:

    * Update zlib in NSS to 1.3.
    * softoken: iterate hashUpdate calls for long inputs.
    * regenerate NameConstraints test certificates (bsc#1214980).

    Update to NSS 3.92:

    * Set nssckbi version number to 2.62
    * Add 4 Atos TrustedRoot Root CA certificates to NSS
    * Add 4 SSL.com Root CA certificates
    * Add Sectigo E46 and R46 Root CA certificates
    * Add LAWtrust Root CA2 (4096)
    * Remove E-Tugra Certification Authority root
    * Remove Camerfirma Chambers of Commerce Root.
    * Remove Hongkong Post Root CA 1
    * Remove E-Tugra Global Root CA ECC v3 and RSA v3
    * Avoid redefining BYTE_ORDER on hppa Linux

    Update to NSS 3.91:

    * Implementation of the HW support check for ADX instruction
    * Removing the support of Curve25519
    * Fix comment about the addition of ticketSupportsEarlyData
    * Adding args to enable-legacy-db build
    * dbtests.sh failure in 'certutil dump keys with explicit default trust flags'
    * Initialize flags in slot structures
    * Improve the length check of RSA input to avoid heap overflow
    * Followup Fixes
    * avoid processing unexpected inputs by checking for m_exptmod base sign
    * add a limit check on order_k to avoid infinite loop
    * Update HACL* to commit 5f6051d2
    * add SHA3 to cryptohi and softoken
    * HACL SHA3
    * Disabling ASM C25519 for A but X86_64

    Update to NSS 3.90.3:

    * GLOBALTRUST 2020: Set Distrust After for TLS and S/MIME.
    * clean up escape handling.
    * remove redundant AllocItem implementation.
    * Disable ASM support for Curve25519.
    * Disable ASM support for Curve25519 for all but X86_64.

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