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openSUSE Security Update : nss-201112 (openSUSE-SU-2012:0030-1) (BEAST)

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The Mozilla NSS libraries were updated to version 3.13.1 to fix various bugs and security problems. Following security issues were fixed: dbg114-nss-201112-5564 new_updateinfo nss-201112-5564 SSL 2.0 is disabled by default dbg114-nss-201112-5564 new_updateinfo nss-201112-5564 A defense against the SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 CBC chosen plaintext attack demonstrated by Rizzo and Duong (CVE-2011-3389) is enabled by default. Set the SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV SSL option to PR_FALSE to disable it. bnc# dbg114-nss-201112-5564 new_updateinfo nss-201112-5564 SHA-224 is supported dbg114-nss-201112-5564 new_updateinfo nss-201112-5564 NSS_NoDB_Init does not try to open /pkcs11.txt and /secmod.db anymore (bmo#641052, bnc#726096) (CVE-2011-3640) Also following bugs were fixed: dbg114-nss-201112-5564 new_updateinfo nss-201112-5564 fix spec file syntax for qemu-workaround dbg114-nss-201112-5564 new_updateinfo nss-201112-5564 Added a patch to fix errors in the pkcs11n.h header file. (bmo#702090) dbg114-nss-201112-5564 new_updateinfo nss-201112-5564 better SHA-224 support (bmo#647706) dbg114-nss-201112-5564 new_updateinfo nss-201112-5564 SHA-224 is supported dbg114-nss-201112-5564 new_updateinfo nss-201112-5564 Added PORT_ErrorToString and PORT_ErrorToName to return the error message and symbolic name of an NSS error code dbg114-nss-201112-5564 new_updateinfo nss-201112-5564 Added NSS_GetVersion to return the NSS version string dbg114-nss-201112-5564 new_updateinfo nss-201112-5564 Added experimental support of RSA-PSS to the softoken only


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