Ubuntu 14.10: USN-2504-1 Moderate: NSS CA Certificates Update

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February 19, 2015

NSS was updated to refresh the CA certificates bundle.

Summary

NSS was updated to refresh the CA certificates bundle.

Software Description:

- nss: Network Security Service library

Details:

The NSS package contained outdated CA certificates. This update refreshes

the NSS package to version 3.17.4 which includes the latest CA certificate

bundle.

Topics Covered

security advisory network security Ubuntu system update NSS update CA certificates

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 14.10:
  libnss3                         2:3.17.4-0ubuntu0.14.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libnss3                         2:3.17.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libnss3                         3.17.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  libnss3-1d                      3.17.4-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug
fixes. After a standard system update you need to restart any applications
that use NSS, such as Evolution and Chromium, to make all the necessary
changes.