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Ubuntu: USN-4719-1 High Severity: CA Certificates Update

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Calendar Grey February 2, 2021
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The SSL certificate bundle in Debian has undergone a significant revision, replacing obsolete certificates with the most current set.
The CA certificates in the ca-certificates package were updated.

Summary

The CA certificates in the ca-certificates package were updated.

Software Description:

- ca-certificates: Common CA certificates

Details:

The ca-certificates package contained outdated CA certificates. This update

refreshes the included certificates to those contained in the 2.46 version

of the Mozilla certificate authority bundle.

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 20.10:
  ca-certificates                 20210119~20.10.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  ca-certificates                 20210119~20.04.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  ca-certificates                 20210119~18.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  ca-certificates                 20210119~16.04.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4719-1

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ca-certificates/+bug/1914064

February 02, 2021

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