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Ubuntu: 4377-1 Moderate: ca-certificates Update for Expired Certificate

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Calendar Grey June 1, 2020
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A deprecated certificate was eliminated from ca-certificates in Ubuntu, impacting several versions. Guidance for updating has been provided.
An expired certificate was removed from ca-certificates.

Summary

An expired certificate was removed from ca-certificates.

Software Description:

- ca-certificates: Common CA certificates

Details:

The ca-certificates package contained an expired CA certificate that caused

connectivity issues. This update removes the "AddTrust External Root" CA.

In addition, on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, this update

refreshes the included certificates to those contained in the 20190110

package.

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  ca-certificates                 20190110ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 19.10:
  ca-certificates                 20190110ubuntu0.19.10.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  ca-certificates                 20190110~18.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  ca-certificates                 20190110~16.04.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4377-1

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ca-certificates/+bug/1881533

June 01, 2020

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