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Fedora 21 NSS Security Revision: Essential Firefox Improvements

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Calendar Grey November 10, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest NSS enhancement for Fedora 21 rectifies numerous flaws in various applications. Ensure your security by applying the most recent updates and modifications.
firefox-42.0-2.fc22 - Update to 42.0 firefox-42.0-2.fc21 - Update to 42.0 firefox-42.0-2.fc23 - Update to 42.0 nspr-4.10.10-1.fc23 - Update to NSPR_4_10_10_RTM nspr-4.10.10-1.fc...

Summary

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.

Update Information:

firefox-42.0-2.fc22 - Update to 42.0 firefox-42.0-2.fc21 - Update to 42.0 firefox-42.0-2.fc23 - Update to 42.0 nspr-4.10.10-1.fc23 - Update to NSPR_4_10_10_RTM nspr-4.10.10-1.fc21 - Update to NSPR_4_10_10_RTM nspr-4.10.10-1.fc22 - Update to NSPR_4_10_10_RTM ---- firefox-41.0.2-2.fc21 - Update to 41.0.2 firefox-41.0.2-2.fc22 - Update to 41.0.2 firefox-41.0.2-2.fc23 - Update to 41.0.2 ---- firefox-41.0-6.fc21 - Rebuilt for old sqlite which is available in updates firefox-41.0-6.fc22 - Rebuilt for old sqlite which is available in updates firefox-41.0-6.fc23 - Rebuilt for old sqlite which is available in updates ---- firefox-41.0-4.fc21 - New upstream 41.0 firefox-41.0-4.fc22 - New upstream 41.0 firefox-41.0-4.fc23 - New upstream 41.0 ---- nss-3.20.0-1.1.1.fc21 - Enable ECC cipher-suites by default [hrbz#1185708] - Split the enabling patch in two for easier maintenance

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Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-fb3360fc0a 2015-11-09 20:14:23.880855
Name : nss Product : Fedora 21 Version : 3.20.1 Release : 1.0.fc21 URL : https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/security/nss/index.html 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.

Update Instructions

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 .

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Name: nss
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 3.20.1
Release: 1.0.fc21
URL: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/security/nss/index.html
Summary: Network Security Services

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Topics Covered

security advisory network security fedora critical software update firefox nss

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