[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: firefox-9.0-3.fc16

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-17400
2011-12-23 03:11:11.857642
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Name        : firefox
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 9.0
Release     : 3.fc16
URL         : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
Summary     : Mozilla Firefox Web browser
Description :
Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards
compliance, performance and portability.

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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


Update nss to 3.13.1

You can find the new features and bug fixes in NSS 3.13 and 3.13.1 with these Bugzilla queries:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=1496878&resolution=FIXED&classification=Components&query_format=advanced&target_milestone=3.13&product=NSS

and

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=1496878&resolution=FIXED&classification=Components&query_format=advanced&target_milestone=3.13.1&product=NSS

Notable 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:

* Wed Dec 21 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 9.0-3
- Update to 9.0
* Thu Dec 15 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 9.0-1.beta5
- Update to 9.0 Beta 5
* Tue Nov 15 2011 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> - 8.0-3
- Disabled addon check UI (#753551)
* Tue Nov 15 2011 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> - 8.0-2
- Temporary workaround for langpacks (#753551)
* Tue Nov  8 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak at redhat.com> - 8.0-1
- Update to 8.0
* Mon Oct 24 2011 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> - 7.0.1-3
- reverted the desktop file name for Fedora15 & 16
* Mon Oct 24 2011 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> - 7.0.1-2
- renamed mozilla-firefox.desktop to firefox.desktop (#736558)
- nspluginwrapper is not run in plugin-container (#747981)
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update firefox' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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