Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2013-149
Advisory Release Date: 2013-02-03 12:33 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 17:22 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
It was found that a Certificate Authority (CA) mis-issued two intermediate certificates to customers. These certificates could be used to launch man-in-the-middle attacks. This update renders those certificates as untrusted. This covers all uses of the certificates, including SSL, S/MIME, and code signing.
Affected Packages:
nss
Issue Correction:
Run yum update nss to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
nss-devel-3.13.6-2.27.amzn1.i686
nss-debuginfo-3.13.6-2.27.amzn1.i686
nss-tools-3.13.6-2.27.amzn1.i686
nss-pkcs11-devel-3.13.6-2.27.amzn1.i686
nss-sysinit-3.13.6-2.27.amzn1.i686
nss-3.13.6-2.27.amzn1.i686
src:
nss-3.13.6-2.27.amzn1.src
x86_64:
nss-3.13.6-2.27.amzn1.x86_64
nss-devel-3.13.6-2.27.amzn1.x86_64
nss-pkcs11-devel-3.13.6-2.27.amzn1.x86_64
nss-tools-3.13.6-2.27.amzn1.x86_64
nss-debuginfo-3.13.6-2.27.amzn1.x86_64
nss-sysinit-3.13.6-2.27.amzn1.x86_64