Debian DSA-2200-1 : iceweasel - ssl certificate blacklist update

high Nessus Plugin ID 52947

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

This update for Iceweasel, a web browser based on Firefox, updates the certificate blacklist for several fraudulent HTTPS certificates.

More details can be found in a blog posting by Jacob Appelbaum of the Tor project.

Solution

Upgrade the iceweasel packages.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.0.19-9 of the xulrunner source package.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.16-6.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 52947

File Name: debian_DSA-2200.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/24/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:iceweasel

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/23/2011

Reference Information

DSA: 2200

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