NSS 3.9.3 Release Notes

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NSS 3.9.3 Release Notes

October 2004

Newsgroup: mozilla.dev.tech.crypto

Introduction
Distribution Information
Bugs Fixed
Documentation
Compatibility
Feedback

Introduction

Network Security Services (NSS) 3.9.3 is a patch release for NSS 3.11. The bug fixes in NSS 3.9.3 are described in the "Bugs Fixed" section below.

Distribution Information

The CVS tag for the NSS 3.9.3 release is NSS_3_9_3_RTM. NSS 3.9.3 requires NSPR 4.5.

See the Documentation section for the build instructions.

NSS 3.9.3 source and binary distributions are also available on ftp.mozilla.org for secure HTTPS download:

Source tarballs: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_9_3_RTM/src/.
Binary distributions: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_9_3_RTM/. Both debug and optimized builds are provided. Go to the subdirectory for your platform, DBG (debug) or OPT (optimized), to get the tar.gz or zip file. The tar.gz or zip file expands to an nss-3.9.3 directory containing three subdirectories:

include - NSS header files
lib - NSS shared libraries
bin - NSS Tools and test programs

You also need to download the NSPR 4.5 binary distributions to get the NSPR 4.5 header files and shared libraries, which NSS 3.9.3 requires. NSPR 4.5 binary distributions are in https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/nspr/releases/v4.5/.

Bugs Fixed

The following bugs have been fixed in NSS 3.9.3.

Bug 242040: Add Unizeto Certum CA certificates to NSS
Bug 244982: Add ipsCA root certificates to NSS
Bug 248981: SECMOD_LoadPKCS11Module is not thread-safe
Bug 249488: root cert module requires locking functions in CK_C_INITIALIZE_ARGS
Bug 250687: NSS Crashes or leaks Cert references if bad certs are passed up by PKCS #11 modules.
Bug 252132: Add Comodo CA certs to NSS
Bug 252271: CERT_VerifyCert with param certUsageVerifyCA fails or asserts
Bug 252375: Add a VERSIONINFO resource to nssckbi.dll.
Bug 252702: NSS needs to handle better token insertion and removal.
Bug 254393: PK11_FindKeyByAnyCert always returns a key object even if there is no key
Bug 258779: libnss3 on Solaris needs additional rpath to /usr/lib/mps
Bug 259003: port NSS to Solaris AMD64
Bug 259229: TLS handshakes fail when server DHE params exceed NSS size limits
Bug 260882: cache->searchedObjectType[[] should always be cleared in clear_cache()
Bug 261333: New PK11_PubEncryptPKCS1 function always fails
Bug 261496: REGRESSION
Bug 262274: visibility of PK11_GetCertFromPrivateKey and CERT_DecodeDERCertificate
Bug 263799: crash in [[@ NSSRWLock_LockRead] closing Mozilla after open Master Password pref panel

Documentation

For a list of the primary NSS documentation pages on mozilla.org, see NSS Documentation.

Compatibility

NSS 3.9.3 shared libraries are backward compatible with all older NSS 3.x shared libraries. A program linked with older NSS 3.x shared libraries will work with NSS 3.9.3 shared libraries without recompiling or relinking. Furthermore, applications that restrict their use of NSS APIs to the functions listed in NSS Public Functions will remain compatible with future versions of the NSS shared libraries.

Feedback

Bugs discovered should be reported by filing a bug report with mozilla.org Bugzilla (product NSS).

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