[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: nss-3.15.4-1.fc20

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-1120
2014-01-19 03:20:54
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Name        : nss
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 3.15.4
Release     : 1.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:

Update of the nss, nss-softokn, and nss-util packages to nss-3.15.4, a patch release for NSS 3.15 which includes the following security-relevant bug:

(CVE-2013-1740) When false start is enabled, libssl will sometimes return unencrypted, unauthenticated data from PR_Recv

For further details refer to the nss upstream release notes at

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/NSS/NSS_3.15.4_release_notes



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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jan  7 2014 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.15.4-1
- Update to nss-3.15.4 (hg tag NSS_3_15_4_RTM)
- Resolves: Bug 1049229 - nss-3.15.4 is available
- Resolves: Bug 1054456 - CVE-2013-1740 nss: false start PR_Recv information disclosure security issue
- Update pem sources to latest from the interim upstream for pem
- Remove no longer needed patches
- Update pem/rsawrapr.c patch on account of upstream changes to freebl/softoken
- Update iquote.patch on account of upstream changes
* Wed Dec 11 2013 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.15.3.1-1
- Update to nss-3.15.3.1 (hg tag NSS_3_15_3_1_RTM)
- Resolves: Bug 1040282 - nss: Mis-issued ANSSI/DCSSI certificate (MFSA 2013-117)
- Resolves: Bug 1040192 - nss-3.15.3.1 is available
* 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 #1053725 - CVE-2013-1740 nss: false start PR_Recv information disclosure security issue
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1053725
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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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