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[BSA-057] Security update for nss



This update to the NSS cryptographic libraries revokes the trust in the
"DigiCert Sdn. Bhd" certificate authority. More information can be found
in the Mozilla Security Blog:
http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2011/11/03/revoking-trust-in-digicert-sdn-bhd-intermediate-certificate-authority/

This update also fixes an insecure load path for pkcs11.txt configuration
file (CVE-2011-3640).

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.12.3.1-0lenny7.

For the lenny-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in
version 3.12.8-1+squeeze4~bpo50+1.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.12.8-1+squeeze4.

For the squeeze-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in
version 3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1~bpo60+1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1.

Upgrade instructions
--------------------

If you don't use pinning (see [1]) you have to update the package
manually via "apt-get -t lenny-backports install <packagelist>" with
the packagelist of your installed packages affected by this update.
[1] <http://backports.debian.org/Instructions>

We recommend to pin (in /etc/apt/preferences) the backports repository
to 200 so that new versions of installed  backports will be installed
automatically.

  Package: *
  Pin: release a=lenny-backports
  Pin-Priority: 200

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