1.. _mozilla_projects_nss_nss_3_16_2_1_release_notes: 2 3NSS 3.16.2.1 release notes 4========================== 5 6`Introduction <#introduction>`__ 7-------------------------------- 8 9.. container:: 10 11 Network Security Services (NSS) 3.16.2.1 is a patch release for NSS 3.16, based on the NSS 3.16.2 12 release. The bug fixes in NSS 3.16.2.1 are described in the "Bugs Fixed" section below. 13 14.. _distribution_information: 15 16`Distribution Information <#distribution_information>`__ 17-------------------------------------------------------- 18 19.. container:: 20 21 The HG tag is NSS_3_16_2_1_RTM. NSS 3.16.2.1 requires NSPR 4.10.6 or newer. 22 23 NSS 3.16.2.1 source distributions are also available on ftp.mozilla.org for secure HTTPS 24 download: 25 26 - Source tarballs: 27 https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_16_2_1_RTM/src/ 28 29.. _security_advisories: 30 31`Security Advisories <#security_advisories>`__ 32---------------------------------------------- 33 34.. container:: 35 36 The following security-relevant bugs have been resolved in NSS 3.16.2.1. Users are encouraged to 37 upgrade immediately. 38 39 - `Bug 1064636 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1064636>`__ - (CVE-2014-1568) RSA 40 Signature Forgery in NSS. See also `MFSA 41 2014-73 <https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-73.html>`__ for details. 42 43.. _new_in_nss_3.16.2.1: 44 45`New in NSS 3.16.2.1 <#new_in_nss_3.16.2.1>`__ 46---------------------------------------------- 47 48.. container:: 49 50.. _new_functionality: 51 52`New Functionality <#new_functionality>`__ 53~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 54 55.. container:: 56 57 No new functionality is introduced in this release. This is a patch release to fix a bug that 58 caused NSS to accept forged RSA signatures. 59 60 A new symbol, \_SGN_VerifyPKCS1DigestInfo is exported in this release. As with all exported NSS 61 symbols that have a leading underscore '_', this is an internal symbol for NSS use only. 62 Applications that use or depend on these symbols can and will break in future NSS releases. 63 64.. _bugs_fixed_in_nss_3.16.2.1: 65 66`Bugs fixed in NSS 3.16.2.1 <#bugs_fixed_in_nss_3.16.2.1>`__ 67~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 68 69.. container:: 70 71 - `Bug 1064636 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1064636>`__ - (CVE-2014-1568) RSA 72 Signature Forgery in NSS 73 74`Acknowledgements <#acknowledgements>`__ 75~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 76 77.. container:: 78 79 The NSS development team would like to thank Antoine Delignat-Lavaud, security researcher at 80 Inria Paris in team Prosecco, and the Advanced Threat Research team at Intel Security, who both 81 independently discovered and reported this issue, for responsibly disclosing the issue by 82 providing advance copies of their research. 83 84`Compatibility <#compatibility>`__ 85---------------------------------- 86 87.. container:: 88 89 NSS 3.16.2.1 shared libraries are backward compatible with all older NSS 3.x shared libraries. A 90 program linked with older NSS 3.x shared libraries will work with NSS 3.16.2.1 shared libraries 91 without recompiling or relinking. Furthermore, applications that restrict their use of NSS APIs 92 to the functions listed in NSS Public Functions will remain compatible with future versions of 93 the NSS shared libraries. 94 95`Feedback <#feedback>`__ 96------------------------ 97 98.. container:: 99 100 Bugs discovered should be reported by filing a bug report with 101 `bugzilla.mozilla.org <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=NSS>`__ (product NSS).