[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: nss-3.13.1-10.fc15

Sun Jan 22 05:26:29 UTC 2012

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-17399
2011-12-23 03:10:48
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Name        : nss
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 3.13.1
Release     : 10.fc15
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:

The latest version of Firefox and Thunderbird have the following changes:

* Added Type Inference, significantly improving JavaScript performance
* Added support for querying Do Not Track status via JavaScript
* Added support for font-stretch
* Improved support for text-overflow
* Improved standards support for HTML5, MathML, and CSS
* Fixed several stability issues
* Fixed several security issues

Notable nss changes include:

1. SSL 2.0 is disabled by default.

2. A defense against the SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 CBC chosen plaintext attack
demonstrated by Rizzo and Duong (CVE-2011-3389) is enabled by default.
Set the SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV SSL option to PR_FALSE to disable it.

3. SHA-224 is supported.

4. Added PORT_ErrorToString and PORT_ErrorToName to return the
error message and symbolic name of an NSS error code.

5. Added NSS_GetVersion to return the NSS version string.

6. Added experimental support of RSA-PSS to the softoken only
(contributed by Hanno Böck, http://rsapss.hboeck.de/).

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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jan  6 2012 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.13.1-10
- Resolves: Bug 770682 - nss update breaks pidgin-sipe connectivity
- NSS_SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV set to 0 by default and changed to 1 on user request
* Tue Dec 13 2011 elio maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.13.1-9
- Revert to using current nss_softokn_version
- Patch to deal with lack of sha224 is no longer needed
* Tue Dec 13 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.13.1-8
- Resolves: Bug 754771 - [PEM] an unregistered callback causes a SIGSEGV
* Mon Dec 12 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.13.1-7
- Resolves: Bug 750376 - nss 3.13 breaks sssd TLS
- Fix how pem is built so that nss-3.13.x works with nss-softokn-3.12.y
- Only patch blapitest for the lack of sha224 on system freebl
- Completed the patch to make pem link against system freebl
* Mon Dec  5 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.13.1-6
- Removed unwanted /usr/include/nss3 in front of the normal cflags include path
- Removed unnecessary patch dealing with CERTDB_TERMINAL_RECORD, it's visible
* Sun Dec  4 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.13.1-5
- Statically link the pem module against system freebl found in buildroot
- Disabling sha224-related powerup selftest until we update softokn
- Disable sha224 and pss tests which nss-softokn 3.12.x doesn't support
* Fri Dec  2 2011 Elio Maldonado Batiz <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.13.1-4
- Rebuild with nss-softokn from 3.12 in the buildroot
- Allows the pem module to statically link against 3.12.x freebl
- Required for using nss-3.13.x with nss-softokn-3.12.y for a merge inrto rhel git repo
- Build will be temprarily placed on buildroot override but not pushed in bodhi
* Fri Nov  4 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.13.1-2
- Fix broken dependencies by updating the nss-util and nss-softokn versions
* Thu Nov  3 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.13.1-1
- Update to NSS_3_13_1_RTM
- Update builtin certs to those from NSSCKBI_1_88_RTM
* Sat Oct 15 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.13-1
- Update to NSS_3_13_RTM
* Sat Oct  8 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.13-0.1.rc0.1
- Update to NSS_3_13_RC0
* Wed Sep 14 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.12.11-3
- Fix attempt to free initilized pointer (#717338)
- Fix leak on pem_CreateObject when given non-existing file name (#734760)
- Fix pem_Initialize to return CKR_CANT_LOCK on multi-treaded calls (#736410)
* Tue Sep  6 2011 Kai Engert <kaie at redhat.com> - 3.12.11-2
- Update builtins certs to those from NSSCKBI_1_87_RTM
* Tue Aug  9 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.12.11-1
- Update to NSS_3_12_11_RTM
* Sat Jul 23 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.12.10-6
- Indicate the provenance of stripped source tarball (#688015)
* Mon Jun 27 2011 Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at fedoraproject.org> - 3.12.10-5
- Provide virtual -static package to meet guidelines (#609612).
* Fri Jun 10 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.12.10-4
- Enable pluggable ecc support (#712556)
- Disable the nssdb write-access-on-read-only-dir tests when user is root (#646045)
* Fri May 20 2011 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> - 3.12.10-3
- make the testsuite non fatal on arm arches
* Tue May 17 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.12.10-2
- Fix crmf hard-coded maximum size for wrapped private keys (#703656)
* Fri May  6 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.12.10-1
- Update to NSS_3_12_10_RTM
* Wed Apr 27 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.12.10-0.1.beta1
- Update to NSS_3_12_10_BETA1
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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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