[ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.19.2.3 Release

Kai Engert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.crypto
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The NSS Development Team announces the release of NSS 3.19.2.3,
which is a security patch release for NSS 3.19.2.

(Current users of NSS 3.19.3, NSS 3.19.4 or NSS 3.20.x are advised to update to
NSS 3.21.1, NSS 3.22.2, or a later release.)

No new functionality is introduced in this release.

The following security-relevant bug has been resolved in NSS 3.19.2.3. 
Users are encouraged to upgrade immediately.

* Bug 1245528 (CVE-2016-1950):
  Fixed a heap-based buffer overflow related to the parsing of certain ASN.1
  structures. An attacker could create a specially-crafted certificate which,
  when parsed by NSS, would cause a crash or execution of arbitrary code with
  the permissions of the user.

The full release notes are available at
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.19.2.3_release_notes

The HG tag is NSS_3_19_2_3_RTM. NSS 3.19.2.3 requires NSPR 4.10.10 or newer.

NSS 3.19.2.3 source distributions are available on ftp.mozilla.org for secure
HTTPS download:
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_19_2_3_RTM/src/

The NSS development team would like to thank security researcher Francis Gabriel
for responsibly disclosing the issue in Bug 1245528.

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