Fedora 25 : ca-certificates (2016-541495b486)

high Nessus Plugin ID 94807

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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 2.10, which has been published as part of Mozilla NSS 3.27.

For additional details, please refer to the NSS 3.27 release notes:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.27
_release_notes

Note: This package version contains an unmodified version of the Mozilla CA list, and the ca-legacy configuration has no effect with this package version.

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-2016-541495b486

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 94807

File Name: fedora_2016-541495b486.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/15/2016

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:25

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/11/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/11/2016

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