On 11/21/22 09:23, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Sun, 2022-11-20 at 19:24 -0500, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: >> On 11/20/22 17:40, Simo Sorce wrote: >>> On Sun, 2022-11-20 at 17:22 -0500, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: >>>> On 11/20/22 07:24, Bojan Smojver via devel wrote: >>>>> Now that nss 3.85 has been built, I thought I'd have a go at building >>>>> FF 107.0, given that's been out for a few days and original builds >>>>> failed in koji, because nss was too old at the time. >>>> >>>> Has switching to bundled NSS been considered? For browsers anything >>>> that holds up an update is very, *very* bad. >>> >>> Casually handling crypto libraries is very, *very* worse. >> >> Has there ever been a case where Fedora’s NSS was not vulnerable to >> something that the bundled NSS was vulnerable to? To be clear, I am >> referring to the NSS shipped by Mozilla as a part of Firefox. >> Another option would be to ensure that NSS is promptly updated. > > NSS is generally updated in order to release Firefox, I am not aware of > a chronic issue here. > > We compile NSS differently than what Mozilla does, for example we use > the Fedora OS trust anchors, and the Fedora Crypto-Policies, etc.. it > is not just about vulnerabilities, system integration matters too. > > But we *have* released patches for security vulnerabilities in NSS w/o > requiring also a full recompile and retesting of Firefox. In that case, can NSS be pushed out to stable immediately, along with the new Firefox? Several days is too long a delay already. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
