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Fedora 23: FEDORA-2015-2880ac7065 critical: nspr network I/O

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An important nspr security patch for Fedora 23 is outlined below, including guidance for installation and details regarding the affected packages.
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

NSPR provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system

facilities. These facilities include threads, thread synchronization,

normal file and network I/O, interval timing and calendar time, basic

memory management (malloc and free) and shared library linking.

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

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Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-2880ac7065 2015-11-04 20:25:16.901112
Name : nspr Product : Fedora 23 Version : 4.10.10 Release : 1.fc23 URL : https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/nspr/index.html Summary : Netscape Portable Runtime Description : NSPR provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system facilities. These facilities include threads, thread synchronization, normal file and network I/O, interval timing and calendar time, basic memory management (malloc and free) and shared library linking.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update nspr' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: nspr
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 4.10.10
Release: 1.fc23
URL: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/nspr/index.html
Summary: Netscape Portable Runtime

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security advisory security update critical Fedora firefox nspr network I/O

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