Fedora 16 Update: nspr-4.9-2.fc16

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-5086
2012-03-31 02:17:16
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Name        : nspr
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 4.9
Release     : 2.fc16
URL         : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/
Summary     : Netscape Portable Runtime
Description :
NSPR provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system
facilities. These facilities include threads, thread synchronization,
normal file and network I/O, interval timing and calendar time, basic
memory management (malloc and free) and shared library linking.

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Update Information:

Update to 3.13.4

The list of bugs fixed on this release can be obtained with the following query:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?resolution=FIXED;classification=Components;query_format=advanced;target_milestone=3.13.4;product=NSS;list_id=2781258


Added partial RELRO support as a security enhancement
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Mar 28 2012 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 4.9-2
- Resolves: Bug 805672 - Library needs partial RELRO support added
* Sat Mar 10 2012 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 4.9-1
- Update to NSPR_4_9_RTM
- Selective merge from f17, don't install everything in /usr
* Thu Sep  8 2011 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> - 4.8.9-2
- Avoid %post/un shell invocations and dependencies.
* Tue Aug  9 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 4.8.9-1
- Update to NSPR_4_8_9_RTM
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #805672 - Library needs partial RELRO support added
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805672
  [ 2 ] Bug #805716 - Library needs partial RELRO support added
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805716
  [ 3 ] Bug #805719 - Library needs partial RELRO support added
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805719
  [ 4 ] Bug #805723 - Library needs partial RELRO support added
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805723
  [ 5 ] Bug #806043 - nss needs to be able to use pem files interchangeably in a single process
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806043
  [ 6 ] Bug #806051 - [PEM] various flaws detected by Coverity
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806051
  [ 7 ] Bug #806058 - [PEM] pem_CreateObject() leaks memory given a non-existing file name
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806058
  [ 8 ] Bug #808824 - nss 3.13.3 causes chrome to no longer trust certain comodo CAs
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=808824
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update nspr' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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