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Fedora 28 : ca-certificates (2018-6d91fc0518)

high Nessus Plugin ID 120510

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is an update to version 2.24 of the Mozilla CA trust list, which has been published as part of the NSS 3.37 release. Please refer to the upstream release notes for the changes:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.37
_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-2018-6d91fc0518

http://www.nessus.org/u?8cc60990

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 120510

File Name: fedora_2018-6d91fc0518.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:28, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ca-certificates

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/31/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/31/2018

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