Debian DSA-2299-1 : ca-certificates - compromised certificate authority

high Nessus Plugin ID 56025

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Synopsis

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

Description

An unauthorized SSL certificate has been found in the wild issued for the DigiNotar Certificate Authority, obtained through a security compromise with said company. Debian, like other software distributors, has as a precaution decided to disable the DigiNotar Root CA by default in its ca-certificates bundle.

For other software in Debian that ships a CA bundle, like the Mozilla suite, updates are forthcoming.

Solution

Upgrade the ca-certificates packages.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), the ca-certificates package does not contain this root CA.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), the root CA has been disabled starting ca-certificates version 20090814+nmu3.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 56025

File Name: debian_DSA-2299.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/1/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ca-certificates, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/31/2011

Reference Information

DSA: 2299

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