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Fedora 24 : ca-certificates (2017-0b50f61ab2)

high Nessus Plugin ID 96499

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is an update to the Mozilla CA certificates list version 2.11, which has been published as part of Mozilla NSS 3.28.1.

For additional details, please refer to the NSS 3.28.1 release notes:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.28 .1_release_notes

As in previous versions of the ca-certificates package, the CA list has been modified to keep several legacy CAs still trusted for compatibility reasons. Please refer to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CA-Certificates for details.

If you prefer to use the unchanged list provided by Mozilla, and if you accept any compatibility issues it may cause, an administrator may configure the system by executing the 'ca-legacy disable' command.
Please refer to the manual page of the ca-legacy command for additional details.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected ca-certificates package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-0b50f61ab2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 96499

File Name: fedora_2017-0b50f61ab2.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/16/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ca-certificates, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/15/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/15/2017

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