Debian DLA-1244-1 : ca-certificates update

high Nessus Plugin ID 106054

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

This release does a complete update of the CA list. This includes removing the StartCom and WoSign certificates to as they are now untrusted by the major browser vendors.

This includes 1024-bit root certificates (#858064) and untrusted StartCom and WoSign certificates (#858539) which have been removed, as they are deemed to untrustworthy.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 20130119+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your ca-certificates packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected ca-certificates package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 106054

File Name: debian_DLA-1244.nasl

Version: 3.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 1/16/2018

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ca-certificates, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 1/15/2018

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