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Fedora alert FEDORA-2011-17400 (thunderbird)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: thunderbird-9.0-4.fc16
Date:  Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:31:27 +0000
Message-ID:  <20111223033127.7EE8622E3A@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-17400 2011-12-23 03:11:11.857642 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : thunderbird Product : Fedora 16 Version : 9.0 Release : 4.fc16 URL : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/ Summary : Mozilla Thunderbird mail/newsgroup client Description : Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: * Thu Dec 22 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak@redhat.com> - 9.0-4 - Update to 9.0 * Fri Dec 9 2011 Martin Stransky <stransky@redhat.com> - 8.0-4 - enabled gio support (#760644) * Tue Nov 29 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak@redhat.com> - 8.0-3 - Fixed s390x issues * Thu Nov 10 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak@redhat.com> - 8.0-2 - Enable Mozilla's crash reporter again for all archs - Temporary workaround for langpacks - Disabled addon check UI (#753551) * Tue Nov 8 2011 Jan Horak <jhorak@redhat.com> - 8.0-1 - Update to 8.0 * Tue Oct 18 2011 Martin Stransky <stransky@redhat.com> - 7.0.1-3 - Added NM patches (mozbz#627672, mozbz#639959) * Wed Oct 12 2011 Dan Horák <dan[at]danny.cz> - 7.0.1-2 - fix build on secondary arches (copied from xulrunner) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update thunderbird' 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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