NSS_3.12.2_release_notes.html

NSS 3.12.2 Release Notes

2008-10-20

Newsgroup: mozilla.dev.tech.crypto

Contents

Introduction

Network Security Services (NSS) 3.12.2 is a patch release for NSS 3.12. The bug fixes in NSS 3.12.2 are described in the "Bugs Fixed" section below.

NSS 3.12.2 is tri-licensed under the MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1.

Distribution Information

The CVS tag for the NSS 3.12.2 release is NSS_3_12_2_RTM. NSS 3.12.2 requires NSPR 4.7.1.

See the Documentation section for the build instructions.

NSS 3.12.2 source and binary distributions are also available on ftp.mozilla.org for secure HTTPS download:

You also need to download the NSPR 4.7.1 binary distributions to get the NSPR 4.7.1 header files and shared libraries, which NSS 3.12.2 requires. NSPR 4.7.1 binary distributions are in https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/nspr/releases/v4.7.1/.

New in NSS 3.12.2

  • New functions in the nss shared library:
      • SEC_PKCS12AddCertOrChainAndKey (see p12.h)

  • New PKCS11 errors (see secerr.h)
      • SEC_ERROR_PKCS11_GENERAL_ERROR
      SEC_ERROR_PKCS11_FUNCTION_FAILED
      SEC_ERROR_PKCS11_DEVICE_ERROR

Bugs Fixed

The following bugs have been fixed in NSS 3.12.2.
  • Bug 200704: PKCS11: invalid session handle 0
  • Bug 205434: Fully implement new libPKIX cert verification API from bug 294531
  • Bug 302670: Use the installed libz.so where available
  • Bug 305693: shlibsign generates PQG for every run
  • Bug 311483: exposing includeCertChain as a parameter to SEC_PKCS12AddCertAndKey
  • Bug 390527: get rid of pkixErrorMsg variable in PKIX_Error
  • Bug 391560: libpkix does not consistently return PKIX_ValidateNode tree that truly represent failure reasons
  • Bug 408260: certutil usage doesn't give enough information about trust arguments
  • Bug 412311: Replace PR_INTERVAL_NO_WAIT with PR_INTERVAL_NO_TIMEOUT in client initialization calls
  • Bug 423839: Add multiple PKCS#11 token password command line option to NSS tools.
  • Bug 432260: [[@ pkix_pl_HttpDefaultClient_HdrCheckComplete - PKIX_PL_Memcpy] crashes when there is no content-length header in the http response
  • Bug 436599: PKIX: AIA extension is not used in some Bridge CA / known certs configuration
  • Bug 437804: certutil -R for cert renewal should derive the subject from the cert if none is specified.
  • Bug 444974: Crash upon reinsertion of E-Identity smartcard
  • Bug 447563: modutil -add prints no error explanation on failure
  • Bug 448431: PK11_CreateMergeLog() declaration causes gcc warning when compiling with -Wstrict-prototypes
  • Bug 449334: pk12util has duplicate options letters
  • Bug 449725: signver is still using static libraries.
  • Bug 450427: Add COMODO ECC Certification Authority certificate to NSS
  • Bug 450536: Remove obsolete XP_MAC code
  • Bug 451024: certutil.exe crashes with Segmentation fault inside PR_Cleanup
  • Bug 451927: security/coreconf/WINNT6.0.mk has invalid defines
  • Bug 452751: Slot leak in PK11_FindSlotsByNames
  • Bug 452865: Remove obsolete linker flags needed when libnss3 was linked with libsoftokn3
  • Bug 454961: Fix the implementation and use of pr_fgets in signtool
  • Bug 455348: Change hyphens to underscores in DEBUG_$(shell whoami).
  • Bug 455424: nssilckt.h defines the enumeration constant 'Lock'
  • Bug 456036: Stubs for deprecated functions in lib/certdb/stanpcertdb.c should set the PR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED_ERROR error.
  • Bug 456854: CERT_DecodeCertPackage does not set NSPR error code upon error
  • Bug 457980: hundreds of kilobytes of useless strings in libPKIX
  • Bug 457984: Enable PKCS11 module logging in optimized builds
  • Bug 458905: Memory leaks in PKIX bridge certificates.
  • Bug 459231: Memory leak in cert fetching - AIA extension.
  • Bug 459248: Support Intel AES extensions.
  • Bug 459359: ForwardBuilderState object is leaked when AIA path incorrect
  • Bug 459481: NSS build problem with GCC 3.4.6 on OS/2

Documentation

For a list of the primary NSS documentation pages on mozilla.org, see NSS Documentation. New and revised documents available since the release of NSS 3.11 include the following:

Compatibility

NSS 3.12.2 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 3.12.2 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).