[ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.16.2.3 Release

2014-10-27 Thread Kai Engert
The NSS Development Team announces the release of NSS 3.16.2.3

Network Security Services (NSS) 3.16.2.3 is a patch release
for NSS 3.16, to fix a regression.

New functionality:
* TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV is a signaling cipher suite value that indicates a
  handshake is the result of TLS version fallback.

New Macros:
* SSL_ENABLE_FALLBACK_SCSV - an SSL socket option that enables
  TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV. Off by default.
* SSL_ERROR_INAPPROPRIATE_FALLBACK_ALERT - a new SSL error code.
* TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV - a a signaling cipher suite value that indicates a
  handshake is the result of TLS version fallback.

The following bug has been resolved in NSS 3.16.2.3:
* Bug 1057161 - NSS hangs with 100% CPU on invalid EC key
* Bug 1036735 - Add support for draft-ietf-tls-downgrade-scsv

The full release notes are available at
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.16.2.3_release_notes

The HG tag is NSS_3_16_2_3_RTM. NSS 3.16.2.3 requires NSPR 4.10.6 or
newer.

NSS 3.16.2.3 source distributions are also available on ftp.mozilla.org
for secure HTTPS download:
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_16_2_3_RTM/src/


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Re: [ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.16.2.3 Release

2014-10-27 Thread Kai Engert
On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 14:59 +0100, Kai Engert wrote:
 The NSS Development Team announces the release of NSS 3.16.2.3
 
 Network Security Services (NSS) 3.16.2.3 is a patch release
 for NSS 3.16, to fix a regression.

Sorry, this paragraph should have said:

Network Security Services (NSS) 3.16.2.3 is a patch release
for NSS 3.16. It fixes a bug and contains a backport of the
TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV feature, which was originally made available in NSS
3.17.1.


 New functionality:
 * TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV is a signaling cipher suite value that indicates a
   handshake is the result of TLS version fallback.
 
 New Macros:
 * SSL_ENABLE_FALLBACK_SCSV - an SSL socket option that enables
   TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV. Off by default.
 * SSL_ERROR_INAPPROPRIATE_FALLBACK_ALERT - a new SSL error code.
 * TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV - a a signaling cipher suite value that indicates a
   handshake is the result of TLS version fallback.
 
 The following bug has been resolved in NSS 3.16.2.3:
 * Bug 1057161 - NSS hangs with 100% CPU on invalid EC key
 * Bug 1036735 - Add support for draft-ietf-tls-downgrade-scsv
 
 The full release notes are available at
 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.16.2.3_release_notes
 
 The HG tag is NSS_3_16_2_3_RTM. NSS 3.16.2.3 requires NSPR 4.10.6 or
 newer.
 
 NSS 3.16.2.3 source distributions are also available on ftp.mozilla.org
 for secure HTTPS download:
 https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_16_2_3_RTM/src/


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