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Fedora 29 NSPR Update: Implement Security Fixes and Improvements

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Calendar Grey September 21, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Investigate the Fedora 29 nspr security patch that improves package efficiency through essential bug resolutions for safer processes.
Updates the nss family of packages to upstream NSPR 4.20 and NSS 3.39

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.

Updates the nss family of packages to upstream NSPR 4.20 and NSS 3.39. For

details about new functionality and a list of bugs fixed in this release please

[ 1 ] Bug #1624704 - CVE-2018-12384 nss: ServerHello.random is all zeros when handling a v2-compatible ClientHello [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1624704

[ 2 ] Bug #1620207 - Enable SSLKEYLOGFILE support

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1620207

[ 3 ] Bug #1578106 - Package version is invalid, or no Source URL provided

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1578106

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-c72d2d89ec' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 29
Version: 4.20.0
Release: 1.fc29
Summary: Netscape Portable Runtime

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