Synopsis: Important: nss and nspr security update
Issue Date: 2011-09-12
Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support
the cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server
applications.
Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) provides platform independence for non-GUI
operating system facilities.
It was found that a Certificate Authority (CA) issued fraudulent HTTPS
certificates. This update renders any HTTPS certificates signed by that CA
as untrusted. This covers all uses of the certificates, including SSL,
S/MIME, and code signing. (BZ#734316)
Note: This fix only applies to applications using the NSS Builtin Object
Token. It does not render the certificates untrusted for applications that
use the NSS library, but do not use the NSS Builtin Object Token.
These updated packages upgrade NSS to version 3.12.10 on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 4 and 5. As well, they upgrade NSPR to version 4.8.8 on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, as required by the NSS update. The packages for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 include a backported patch.
All NSS and NSPR users should upgrade to these updated packages, which
correct this issue. After installing the update, applications using NSS and
NSPR must be restarted for the changes to take effect.
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SL4
x86_64
nspr-4.8.8-1.el4.i386.rpm
nspr-4.8.8-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
nspr-devel-4.8.8-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
nss-3.12.10-4.el4.i386.rpm
nss-3.12.10-4.el4.x86_64.rpm
nss-devel-3.12.10-4.el4.x86_64.rpm
nss-tools-3.12.10-4.el4.x86_64.rpm
i386
nspr-4.8.8-1.el4.i386.rpm
nspr-devel-4.8.8-1.el4.i386.rpm
nss-3.12.10-4.el4.i386.rpm
nss-devel-3.12.10-4.el4.i386.rpm
nss-tools-3.12.10-4.el4.i386.rpm
SL5
x86_64
nspr-4.8.8-1.el5_7.i386.rpm
nspr-4.8.8-1.el5_7.x86_64.rpm
nspr-devel-4.8.8-1.el5_7.i386.rpm
nspr-devel-4.8.8-1.el5_7.x86_64.rpm
nss-3.12.10-4.el5_7.i386.rpm
nss-3.12.10-4.el5_7.x86_64.rpm
nss-devel-3.12.10-4.el5_7.i386.rpm
nss-devel-3.12.10-4.el5_7.x86_64.rpm
nss-pkcs11-devel-3.12.10-4.el5_7.i386.rpm
nss-pkcs11-devel-3.12.10-4.el5_7.x86_64.rpm
nss-tools-3.12.10-4.el5_7.x86_64.rpm
i386
nspr-4.8.8-1.el5_7.i386.rpm
nspr-devel-4.8.8-1.el5_7.i386.rpm
nss-3.12.10-4.el5_7.i386.rpm
nss-devel-3.12.10-4.el5_7.i386.rpm
nss-pkcs11-devel-3.12.10-4.el5_7.i386.rpm
nss-tools-3.12.10-4.el5_7.i386.rpm
SL6
x86_64
nss-3.12.9-12.el6_1.i686.rpm
nss-3.12.9-12.el6_1.x86_64.rpm
nss-devel-3.12.9-12.el6_1.i686.rpm
nss-devel-3.12.9-12.el6_1.x86_64.rpm
nss-pkcs11-devel-3.12.9-12.el6_1.i686.rpm
nss-pkcs11-devel-3.12.9-12.el6_1.x86_64.rpm
nss-sysinit-3.12.9-12.el6_1.x86_64.rpm
nss-tools-3.12.9-12.el6_1.x86_64.rpm
i386
nss-3.12.9-12.el6_1.i686.rpm
nss-devel-3.12.9-12.el6_1.i686.rpm
nss-pkcs11-devel-3.12.9-12.el6_1.i686.rpm
nss-sysinit-3.12.9-12.el6_1.i686.rpm
nss-tools-3.12.9-12.el6_1.i686.rpm
– Scientific Linux Development Team
