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USN-2350-1: NSS update

22 September 2014

NSS was updated to refresh the CA certificates bundle.

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Releases

Packages

  • nss - Network Security Service library

Details

The NSS package contained outdated CA certificates. This update refreshes
the NSS package to version 3.17 which includes the latest CA certificate
bundle.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 10.04

This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug
fixes. After a standard system update you need to restart any applications
that use NSS, such as Evolution and Chromium, to make all the necessary
changes.