Scientific Linux SL6.x: Important CA-Certificates Update for Untrusted CA

Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 14:38:20 -0500
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From: "Tyler L. Parsons" 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: ca-certificates on SL6.x
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Synopsis: Important: ca-certificates security update
Issue Date: 2011-09-02

This package contains the set of CA certificates chosen by the Mozilla
Foundation for use with the Internet Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).

It was found that a Certificate Authority (CA) issued fraudulent HTTPS
certificates. This update removes that CA's root certificate from the
ca-certificates package, rendering any HTTPS certificates signed by that CA
as untrusted.

All users should upgrade to this updated package. After installing the
update, all applications using the ca-certificates package must be
restarted for the changes to take effect.

SL6:
 noarch
 ca-certificates-2010.63-3.el6_1.5.noarch.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team