Fedora 27 : ca-certificates (2017-fba4c155be)

high Nessus Plugin ID 106015

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is a cumulative update to the Mozilla CA certificates trust list version 2.20, which has been published as part of Mozilla NSS 3.34.1.
It also includes the changes that were previously released as version 2.18 as part of NSS 3.34.

For additional details, please refer to the release notes of NSS 3.34.1 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.34 .1_release_notes ) and NSS 3.34 (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.3 4_release_notes ).

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-fba4c155be

http://www.nessus.org/u?368d2d14

http://www.nessus.org/u?ec44cf92

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 106015

File Name: fedora_2017-fba4c155be.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ca-certificates, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/10/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/10/2017

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