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Debian: DSA-2343-1 Critical OpenSSL Trust Revocation Remote Issue

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Calendar Grey November 9, 2011
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A number of flawed certificates were released, prompting substantial revocation measures and an immediate OpenSSL upgrade for Ubuntu.
Several weak certificates were issued by Malaysian intermediate CA "Digicert Sdn

Summary

Several weak certificates were issued by Malaysian intermediate CA
"Digicert Sdn. Bhd." This event, along with other issues, has lead to
Entrust Inc. and Verizon Cybertrust to revoke the CA's cross-signed
certificates.

This update to OpenSSL, a Secure Sockets Layer toolkit, reflects this
decision by marking Digicert Sdn. Bhd.'s certificates as revoked.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.8g-15+lenny14.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.8o-4squeeze4.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.0e-2.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your openssl 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/



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