[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: nspr-4.10.2-1.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-22756
2013-12-05 00:23:10
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Name        : nspr
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 4.10.2
Release     : 1.fc20
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:

This update rebases the nss, nss-util, and nss-softokn packages to nss-3.15.3 and nspr to nspr-4.10.2 in order to address security-relevant bugs have been resolved in NSS 3.15.3.

For further details please refer to the upstream release notes at

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/NSS/NSS_3.15.3_release_notes

Included are some fixes to the manpages.

For best results you should upgrade all packages at once including any devel packages.


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ChangeLog:

* Sun Dec  1 2013 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 4.10.2-1
- Update to NSPR_4_10_2_RTM
- Avoid unsigned integer wrapping in PL_ArenaAllocate
- Resolves: rhbz#1031465 - CVE-2013-5607
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1030807 - CVE-2013-5605 nss: Null_Cipher() does not respect maxOutputLen  (MFSA 2013-103)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1030807
  [ 2 ] Bug #1031458 - CVE-2013-1741 nss: Integer truncation in certificate parsing (MFSA 2013-103)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1031458
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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/.

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/keys
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