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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2299-1 (ca-certificates)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

12 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to ca-certificates announced via advisory DSA 2299-1.

Insight

Insight

An unauthorized SSL certificate has been found in the wild issued the DigiNotar Certificate Authority, obtained through a security compromise with said company. Debian, like other software distributors, has as a precaution decided to disable the DigiNotar Root CA by default in its ca-certificates bundle. For other software in Debian that ships a CA bundle, like the Mozilla suite, updates are forthcoming. For the oldstable distribution (lenny), the ca-certificates package does not contain this root CA. For the stable distribution (squeeze), the root CA has been disabled starting ca-certificates version 20090814+nmu3. For the testing distribution (wheezy) and unstable distribution (sid), the root CA has been disabled starting ca-certificates version 20110502+nmu1.

Solution

Solution

We recommend that you upgrade your ca-certificates packages.