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Fedora 21: 2015-4711 Moderate: Ca-Certificates Legacy Trust Update

This is an update to the set of CA certificates released with NSS version 3.18 However, the package modifies the CA list to keep several legacy CAs still trusted for compatibility reasons. Please refer to the project URL for details. If you prefer to use the unchanged list provided by Mozilla, and if you accept any compatibility issues it may cause, an administrator may configure the system by exe [More...]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-4711 2015-03-26 16:50:15 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : ca-certificates Product : Fedora 21 Version : 2015.2.3 Release : 1.0.fc21 URL : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CA-Certificates Summary : The Mozilla CA root certificate bundle Description : This package contains the set of CA certificates chosen by the Mozilla Foundation for use with the Internet PKI. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This is an update to the set of CA certificates released with NSS version 3.18 However, the package modifies the CA list to keep several legacy CAs still trusted for compatibility reasons. Please refer to the project URL for details. If you prefer to use the unchanged list provided by Mozilla, and if you accept any compatibility issues it may cause, an administrator may configure the system by executing the "ca-legacy disable" command. This update corrects the Fedora legacy classification of four root CA certificates, which had trust added or removed in the upstream 2.1 and 2.2 releases. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Mar 24 2015 Kai Engert - 2015.2.3-1.0 - Update to CKBI 2.3 from NSS 3.18 with legacy modifications - Fixed a mistake in the legacy handling of the upstream 2.2 release: Removed two AOL certificates from the legacy group, because upstream didn't removethem as part of phasing out 1024-bit certificates, which means it isn't necessary to keep them. - Fixed a mistake in the legacy handling of the upstream 2.1 release: Moved two NetLock certificates into the legacy group. * Tue Dec 16 2014 Kai Engert - 2014.2.2-1.0 - Update to CKBI 2.2 from NSS 3.17.3 with legacy modifications - Update project URL - Cleanup -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1205305 - Update to version 2.3 as released with NSS 3.18 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205305 [ 2 ] Bug #1205302 - Fix the legacy CA inclusions of upstream 2.1 and 2.2 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205302 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update ca-certificates' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at . All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/security/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/package-announce.lists.fedoraproject.org/ . -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notif. update, certificates, released, version, however, package. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Apr 13, 2015 Fedora