RHSA-2016:0685: nss, nspr, nss-softokn, and nss-util security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Description
Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support the cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. The nss-util packages provide utilities for use with the Network Security Services (NSS) libraries. Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system facilities.The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version: nss (3.21.0), nss-util (3.21.0), nspr (4.11.0). (BZ#1310581, BZ#1303021, BZ#1299872)Security Fix(es):Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Eric Rescorla as the original reporter of CVE-2016-1978; and Tim Taubert as the original reporter of CVE-2016-1979.Bug Fix(es):
Solution(s)
- redhat-upgrade-nspr
- redhat-upgrade-nspr-debuginfo
- redhat-upgrade-nspr-devel
- redhat-upgrade-nss
- redhat-upgrade-nss-debuginfo
- redhat-upgrade-nss-devel
- redhat-upgrade-nss-pkcs11-devel
- redhat-upgrade-nss-softokn
- redhat-upgrade-nss-softokn-debuginfo
- redhat-upgrade-nss-softokn-devel
- redhat-upgrade-nss-softokn-freebl
- redhat-upgrade-nss-softokn-freebl-devel
- redhat-upgrade-nss-sysinit
- redhat-upgrade-nss-tools
- redhat-upgrade-nss-util
- redhat-upgrade-nss-util-debuginfo
- redhat-upgrade-nss-util-devel
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