Introduction
The NSS team has released Network Security Services (NSS) 3.44.4 on 19 May 2020. This is a security patch release.
Thank you to Cesar Pereida Garcia and the Network and Information Security Group (NISEC) at Tampere University for reporting this issue.
Distribution Information
The HG tag is NSS_3_44_4_RTM. NSS 3.44.4 requires NSPR 4.21 or newer.
NSS 3.44.4 source distributions are available on ftp.mozilla.org for secure HTTPS download:
Other releases are available in NSS Releases.
New in NSS 3.44.4
No new functionality is introduced in this release.
Bugs fixed in NSS 3.44.4
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CVE-2020-12399 - Force a fixed length for DSA exponentiation
Compatibility
NSS 3.44.4 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 3.44.4 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 bugzilla.mozilla.org (product NSS).