Fedora 20 : ca-certificates-2015.2.3-1.0.fc20 (2015-4486)

high Nessus Plugin ID 82749

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is an update to the set of CA certificates released with NSS version 3.18

However, the package modifies the CA list to keep several legacy CAs still trusted for compatibility reasons. Please refer to the project URL 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.

This update corrects the Fedora legacy classification of four root CA certificates, which had trust added or removed in the upstream 2.1 and 2.2 releases.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. 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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205302

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205305

http://www.nessus.org/u?36e7de84

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 82749

File Name: fedora_2015-4486.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/14/2015

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:20

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/26/2015

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2015-4486