[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: nss-3.15.3-2.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-22756
2013-12-05 00:23:10
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Name        : nss
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 3.15.3
Release     : 2.fc20
URL         : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/
Summary     : Network Security Services
Description :
Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to
support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and
server applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2
and v3, TLS, PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12, S/MIME, X.509
v3 certificates, and other security standards.

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Update Information:

This update rebases the nss, nss-util, and nss-softokn packages to nss-3.15.3 and nspr to nspr-4.10.2 in order to address security-relevant bugs have been resolved in NSS 3.15.3.

For further details please refer to the upstream release notes at

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/NSS/NSS_3.15.3_release_notes

Included are some fixes to the manpages.

For best results you should upgrade all packages at once including any devel packages.


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ChangeLog:

* Tue Dec  3 2013 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.15.3-2
- Install symlink to setup-nsssysinit.sh, without suffix, to match manpage
* Sun Nov 24 2013 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.15.3-1
- Update to NSS_3_15_3_RTM
- Resolves: Bug 1031897 - CVE-2013-5605 CVE-2013-5606 CVE-2013-1741 nss: various flaws
- Fix option descriptions for setup-nsssysinit manpage
- Fix man page of nss-sysinit wrong path and other flaws
- Document email option for certutil manpage
- Remove unused patches
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1030807 - CVE-2013-5605 nss: Null_Cipher() does not respect maxOutputLen  (MFSA 2013-103)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1030807
  [ 2 ] Bug #1031458 - CVE-2013-1741 nss: Integer truncation in certificate parsing (MFSA 2013-103)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1031458
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update nss' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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