Bug 1414985

Summary:	Ensure thunderbird (and other moz applications) are compatible with NSS 3.28 [RHEL 6.x]
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account) <kengert>
Component:	thunderbird	Assignee:	Red Hat Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version:	6.9	CC:	dueno, hkario, tpelka
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Description Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account) 2017-01-19 21:42:05 UTC

We will update RHEL 6.x to NSS 3.28, which is incompatible with Mozilla 50 and older versions, depending on which features are enabled in NSS RHEL.

Because we most like keep an older nss-softokn version in RHEL 6.x, this might be a non-issue.

However, I recommend that you pick up a small patch in Thunderbird, and other applications such as xulrunner (if we're using any such applications in RHEL), to prevent potentially issues.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1290037

Comment 2 Hubert Kario 2017-01-20 14:59:40 UTC

The issue is not so much 3.28 as the X25519 that this version adds, and since the implementation of x25519 is in softokn, that is incompatibility with nss-softokn 3.28 package.

Comment 3 Jan Kurik 2017-12-06 11:57:58 UTC

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is in the Production 3 Phase. During the Production 3 Phase, Critical impact Security Advisories (RHSAs) and selected Urgent Priority Bug Fix Advisories (RHBAs) may be released as they become available.

The official life cycle policy can be reviewed here:

http://redhat.com/rhel/lifecycle

This issue does not meet the inclusion criteria for the Production 3 Phase and will be marked as CLOSED/WONTFIX. If this remains a critical requirement, please contact Red Hat Customer Support to request a re-evaluation of the issue, citing a clear business justification. Note that a strong business justification will be required for re-evaluation. Red Hat Customer Support can be contacted via the Red Hat Customer Portal at the following URL:

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