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Fedora 31: Security Advisory for NSS 3.55 Critical Timing Attack

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Calendar Grey August 24, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The new 3.55 NSS security patch for Fedora 31 improves encryption capabilities and mitigates a range of security flaws.
Updates the nss package to upstream NSS 3.55

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 nss package to upstream NSS 3.55. For details about new

functionality and a list of bugs fixed in this release please see the upstream

* Sun Aug 2 2020 Daiki Ueno - 3.55.0-1

- Update to NSS 3.55

[ 1 ] Bug #1851294 - CVE-2020-12401 nss: ECDSA timing attack mitigation bypass

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1851294

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-426fd04fd0' 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: 3.55.0
Release: 1.fc31
Summary: Network Security Services

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