[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: nss-3.19.1-1.0.fc21

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-9130
2015-05-30 09:30:13
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Name        : nss
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 3.19.1
Release     : 1.0.fc21
URL         : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/
Summary     : Network Security Services
Description :
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.

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Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2015-4000

Update to the upstream NSS 3.19.1 release, which includes a fix for the recently published logjam attack.

The previous 3.19 release made several notable changes related to the TLS protocol, one of them was to disable the SSL 3 protocol by default.

For the full list of changes in the 3.19 and 3.19.1 releases, please refer to the upstream release notes documents:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.19.1_release_notes

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.19_release_notes

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ChangeLog:

* Thu May 28 2015 Kai Engert <kaie at redhat.com> - 3.19.1-1.0
- Update to NSS 3.19.1
* Tue May 19 2015 Kai Engert <kaie at redhat.com> - 3.19.0-1.0
- Update to NSS 3.19
* Mon Mar 23 2015 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.18.0-1
- Update to nss-3.18.0
* Wed Jan 28 2015 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.17.4-1
- Update to nss-3.17.4
* Sat Jan 24 2015 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> - 3.17.3-4
- Own the %{_datadir}/doc/nss-tools dir
* Mon Dec 15 2014 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.17.3-2
- Resolves: Bug 987189 - nss-tools RPM conflicts with perl-PAR-Packer
- Install pp man page in %{_datadir}/doc/nss-tools/pp.1
- Use %{_mandir} instead of /usr/share/man as more generic
* Fri Dec  5 2014 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.17.3-1
- Update to nss-3.17.3
- Resolves: Bug 1171012 - nss-3.17.3 is available
* Thu Oct 16 2014 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 3.17.2-2
- Resolves: Bug 994599 - Enable TLS 1.2 by default
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1223211 - CVE-2015-4000 LOGJAM: TLS connections which support export grade DHE key-exchange are vulnerable to MITM attacks
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1223211
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update nss' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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