Critical: nss security update
Security Advisory: Critical
An update for nss is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Extended
Lifecycle Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a
detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE
link(s) in the References section.
Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support the
cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications.
Security Fix(es):
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue.
Upstream acknowledges Ronald Crane as the original reporter.
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in
this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
After installing this update, applications using NSS (for example, Firefox) must
be restarted for this update to take effect.