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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2300-2 nss -- compromised certificate authority

Date Reported:

05 Sep 2011

Affected Packages:

nss

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

No other external database security references currently available.

More information:

Several unauthorised SSL certificates have been found in the wild issued for the DigiNotar Certificate Authority, obtained through a security compromise with said company. Debian, like other software distributors, has as a precaution decided to disable the DigiNotar Root CA by default in the NSS crypto libraries.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 3.12.3.1-0lenny6.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.12.8-1+squeeze3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.12.11-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your nss packages.