[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: nspr-4.9.5-2.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-3079
2013-02-27 01:48:48
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Name        : nspr
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 4.9.5
Release     : 2.fc17
URL         : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/
Summary     : Netscape Portable Runtime
Description :
NSPR provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system
facilities. These facilities include threads, thread synchronization,
normal file and network I/O, interval timing and calendar time, basic
memory management (malloc and free) and shared library linking.

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Update Information:

Update to nss-3.14.3

This is a patch release to address CVE-2013-1620.

Detailed descriptions of the bugs fixed by nss-3.14.3 can be found in the upstream release notes at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/NSS/NSS_3.14.3_release_notes
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Feb 18 2013 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 4.9.5-2
- Resolves: rhbz#912483 - Add spec file support for AArch64
* Fri Feb  1 2013 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 4.9.5-1
- Update to NSPR_4_9_5_RTM
* Mon Dec 17 2012 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 4.9.4-1
- Update to NSPR_4_9_4_RTM
* Wed Aug 29 2012 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 4.9.2-1
- Update to NSPR_4_9_2_RTM
* Wed Jul 11 2012 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 4.9.1-2
- Updated License: to MPLv2.0 per upstream
* Fri Jun 22 2012 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 4.9.1-1
- Update to NSPR_4_9_1_RTM
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #908257 - CVE-2013-1620 nss: TLS CBC padding timing attack [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908257
  [ 2 ] Bug #910584 - certutil -a does not produce ASCII output
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910584
  [ 3 ] Bug #896651 - PEM module trashes private keys if login fails
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=896651
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update nspr' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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