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Posted on 05 September 2011
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2300-2 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst
September 5, 2011 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : nss
Vulnerability : comprimised certificate authority
Problem type : local(remote)
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : not available
Several unauthorised SSL certificates have 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 the NSS crypto libraries.
As a result from further understanding of the incident, this update
to DSA 2300 disables additional DigiNotar issuing certificates.
For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.12.3.1-0lenny6.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.12.8-1+squeeze3.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.12.11-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your nss packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
