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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-9048
2015-05-30 09:25:32
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Name : nss
Product : Fedora 22
Version : 3.19.1
Release : 1.0.fc22
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:
Security fix for CVE-2015-4000
Update to the upstream NSS 3.19.1 release, which includes a fix for the recently published
logjam attack.
The previous 3.19 release made several notable changes related to the TLS protocol, one of
them was to disable the SSL 3 protocol by default.
For the full list of changes in the 3.19 and 3.19.1 releases, please refer to the upstream
release notes documents:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.19.1_...
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.19_re...
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ChangeLog:
* Thu May 28 2015 Kai Engert <kaie(a)redhat.com> - 3.19.1-1.0
- Update to NSS 3.19.1
* Tue May 19 2015 Kai Engert <kaie(a)redhat.com> - 3.19.0-1.0
- Update to NSS 3.19
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1223211 - CVE-2015-4000 LOGJAM: TLS connections which support export grade
DHE key-exchange are vulnerable to MITM attacks
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1223211
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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/.
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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