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Security researcher Matthew Green reported a Diffie–Hellman
(DHE) key processing issue in Network Security Services (NSS) where a
man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacker can force a server to downgrade TLS
connections to 512-bit export-grade cryptography by modifying client
requests to include only export-grade cipher suites. The resulting
weak key can then be leveraged to impersonate the server. This attack
is detailed in the "Imperfect Forward
Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice" paper and is known as the
"Logjam Attack."This issue was fixed in NSS version 3.19.1 by limiting the lower strength of
supported DHE keys to use 1023 bit primes.

Security researcher Karthikeyan Bhargavan reported an issue
in Network Security Services (NSS) where MD5 signatures in the server signature within the
TLS 1.2 ServerKeyExchange message are still accepted. This is an issue since NSS has
officially disallowed the accepting MD5 as a hash algorithm in signatures since 2011. This
issues exposes NSS based clients such as Firefox to theoretical collision-based forgery
attacks. This issue was fixed in NSS version 3.20.2.

Mozilla developers added support in the Network Security Services
module for preventing a type of man-in-the-middle attack against TLS
using forced renegotiation.Note that to benefit from the fix, Firefox 3.6 and
Firefox 3.5 users will need to set
their security.ssl.require_safe_negotiation preference to
true.  Firefox 3 does not contain the fix for this issue.