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Fedora 31 Update 2020-16741ac7ff: Critical NSS Security Patch

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Calendar Grey July 31, 2020
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Fedora 31 brings key updates to NSS and NSPR libraries, focusing on enhanced system security with better SSL/TLS protocols and patched vulnerabilities, ensuring safer transactions for users
Updates the nspr and nss package to upstream NSPR 4.26 and NSS 3.54

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.

Updates the nspr and nss package to upstream NSPR 4.26 and NSS 3.54. For

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

* Wed Jul 15 2020 Daiki Ueno - 3.54.0-1

- Update to NSS 3.54

[ 1 ] Bug #1841939 - nss-3.54 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1841939

[ 2 ] Bug #1847931 - CVE-2020-12402 nss: Side channel vulnerabilities during RSA key generation [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1847931

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-16741ac7ff' 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

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 31
Version: 3.54.0
Release: 1.fc31
Summary: Network Security Services

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