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Fedora alert FEDORA-2011-17400 (nss-softokn)

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Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: nss-softokn-3.13.1-14.fc16
Date:  Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:31:27 +0000
Message-ID:  <20111223033127.4857E22DBD@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-17400 2011-12-23 03:11:11.857642 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : nss-softokn Product : Fedora 16 Version : 3.13.1 Release : 14.fc16 URL : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ Summary : Network Security Services Softoken Module Description : Network Security Services Softoken Cryptographic Module -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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&... and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=1496878&... 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/). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Dec 14 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona@redhat.com> - 3.13.1-14 - Ensure it builds even if the buildroot that hasn't yet been boostrapped with updated headers - The build tree freebl headers are selected in preference to the system ones * Tue Dec 13 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona@redhat.com> - 3.12.9-13.1 - Restore the update to 3.13.1 - Update the patch for freebl to deal with prelinked shared libraries - Add additional dbrg power-up self-tests as required by fips - Reactivate the tests * Tue Dec 6 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona@redhat.com> - 3.12.9-13 - Bug 757005 Build nss-softokn for rhel 7 - Make it almost like nss-softokn-3.12.9 in rhel 6.2 - Added a patch to build with Linux 3 and higher - Meant to work with nss and nss-utul 3.1.3.1 - Download only the 3.12.9 sources from the lookaside cache * Fri Dec 2 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona@redhat.com> - 3.12.9-12 - Retagging * Wed Nov 23 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona@redhat.com> - 3.12.9-11 - Downgrading to 3.12.9 for a merge into new RHEL git repo - This build is for the buildroot for a limited time only - Do not not push it to update-testing * Tue Nov 8 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona@redhat.com> - 3.13.1-1 - Update to NSS_3_13_1_RTM * Wed Oct 12 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona@redhat.com> - 3.12.10-6 - Fix failure to switch nss-softokn to FIPS mode (#745571) * Tue Oct 11 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona@redhat.com> - 3.13-0.1.rc0.3 - Update to NSS_3_13_RC0 post bootstrapping - Don't incude util in sources for the lookaside cache - Reenable building the fipstest tool - Restore full cli argument parsing in the sectool library * Sun Oct 9 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona@redhat.com> - 3.13-0.1.rc0.2 - Update to NSS_3_13_RC0 bootstrapping the system phase 2 - Reenable the cipher test suite * Sat Oct 8 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona@redhat.com> - 3.13-0.rc0.1 - Update to NSS_3_13_RC0 * Thu Sep 8 2011 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi> - 3.12.11-3 - Avoid %post/un shell invocations and dependencies. * Wed Aug 17 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona@redhat.com> - 3.12.10-5 - rebuilt as recommended to deal with an rpm 4.9.1 issue -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update nss-softokn' 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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