openSUSE Security Update : nss-201112 (openSUSE-SU-2012:0030-1) (BEAST)
High Nessus Plugin ID 75685
Synopsis
The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
Description
The Mozilla NSS libraries were updated to version 3.13.1 to fix various bugs and security problems.
Following security issues were fixed :
- SSL 2.0 is disabled by default
- 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#
- SHA-224 is supported
- 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 :
- fix spec file syntax for qemu-workaround
- Added a patch to fix errors in the pkcs11n.h header file. (bmo#702090)
- better SHA-224 support (bmo#647706)
- SHA-224 is supported
- Added PORT_ErrorToString and PORT_ErrorToName to return the error message and symbolic name of an NSS error code
- Added NSS_GetVersion to return the NSS version string
- Added experimental support of RSA-PSS to the softoken only
Solution
Update the affected nss-201112 packages.